Editing 1869 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The [[American Museum of Natural History]] is founded in New York.
* [[April 17]] &ndash; The State of [[Morelos]] is created in Mexico.
* [[May]] &ndash; In [[1869 French legislative election|elections in France]], the opposition, consisting of republicans, monarchists and liberals, polls almost 45% of the vote.
* [[May 4]]–[[May 10|10]] &ndash; [[Naval Battle of Hakodate]]: The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] defeats adherents of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Purdue University]] is founded in [[West Lafayette, Indiana]].
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The [[first transcontinental railroad]] in North America is completed at [[Promontory, Utah]], by the driving of the "[[golden spike]]".<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11371/ |title = Ceremony at "Wedding of the Rails," May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1869-05-10 |access-date = 2013-07-20 }}</ref>[[File:East and West Shaking hands at the laying of last rail Union Pacific Railroad - Restoration.jpg|thumb|[[May 10]] &ndash; The [[First transcontinental railroad]] in North America is completed]]
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Women's suffrage]]: In New York, [[Susan B. Anthony]] and [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] form the [[National Woman Suffrage Association]].
* [[May 18]] &ndash; One day after surrendering at the land [[Battle of Hakodate]] (begun [[4 December]] [[1868]]), [[Enomoto Takeaki]] turns over [[Goryōkaku]] to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the [[Republic of Ezo]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Sainsbury's]] first store, in [[Drury Lane]], London, is opened.<ref>{{cite book|first=Maurice|last=Baren|title=How it All Began Up the High Street|location=London|year=1996|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books|isbn=1-85479-667-4}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869|John Wesley Powell]] departs [[Green River, Wyoming]], with a company of nine other men, on a trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Boston University]] is chartered by the [[Commonwealth of Massachusetts]].
* [[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Cincinnati Red Stockings]] open the [[baseball]] season as the first fully professional team.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Sherwood College]] is founded in [[Nainital]], India.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[John Wesley Hyatt]] patents [[celluloid]] in [[Albany, New York]].
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The fortress of [[Goryōkaku]] is turned over to Imperial Japanese forces, bringing an end to the [[Republic of Ezo]], the [[Battle of Hakodate]] and the [[Boshin War]], the military phase of the [[Meiji Restoration]].
* [[June 30]]–[[July 2]] &ndash; The first [[Estonian Song Festival]] takes place in [[Tartu]].