Editing 1869 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Gävle]], Sweden, is destroyed in a city fire; 8,000 people become homeless.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès]] files a patent for [[margarine]] in France.
* [[July 20]]
** ''[[The Innocents Abroad]]'', by [[Mark Twain]], goes on sale after printing by the American Publishing Company.  It becomes Twain's bestselling work during his lifetime.<ref>Milton Meltzer, ''Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography'' (University of Missouri Press, 2002) p. 102</ref>
** [[Children's Hospital Boston]] is founded by Dr. Francis Henry Brown and other [[Harvard Medical School]] graduates, as a 20-bed facility in the [[South End, Boston|South End]] of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Boston Children's Hospital|url=https://www.ahajournals.org/pb-assets/migration/Circulation/Hospitals%20History/Hospitals%20of%20History%20-%20Boston%20Children%27s%20Hospital.pdf|last=Valente|first=Anne Marie|website=American Heart Association|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926061503/https://www.ahajournals.org/pb-assets/migration/Circulation/Hospitals%20History/Hospitals%20of%20History%20-%20Boston%20Children%27s%20Hospital.pdf|archive-date=26 September 2020|access-date=8 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The [[Irish Church Act 1869]] is given [[royal assent]] by [[Queen Victoria]], [[disestablishment|disestablishing]] the [[Church of Ireland]] effective January 1, 1871.
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[August Bebel]] and [[Wilhelm Liebknecht]] found the [[Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany]] (SDAP).
* [[August 27]] &ndash; The [[University of Oxford]] wins the first international boat race held on the [[River Thames]], against [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; Irish scientist [[Mary Ward (scientist)|Mary Ward]] is killed by a [[steam car]].
* [[September 5]] &ndash; The foundation stone is laid for [[Neuschwanstein Castle]] in [[Bavaria]] (southern Germany).
* [[September 11]] &ndash; Work on the [[Wallace Monument]] is completed in [[Stirling]], Scotland.
* [[September 12]]&ndash;[[September 13|13]] &ndash; [[P&O]]'s {{SS|Carnatic}} runs aground and sinks in the [[Red Sea]]; 31 drown.
* [[September 24]] &ndash; ''[[Black Friday (1869)|Black Friday]]'': The [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]]–[[Jay Gould]] Scandal causes a financial panic in the United States.