Editing 1869 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* October &ndash; The '[[Edinburgh Seven]]', led by [[Sophia Jex-Blake]], start to attend lectures at the [[University of Edinburgh Medical School]], the first women in the United Kingdom to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=M. A.|last=Elston|title=Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/61136|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61136|access-date=2011-01-28}}</ref>
* [[October 11]]
** The [[Red River Rebellion]] breaks out against British forces in Canada.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=290–291|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
** Gamma Sigma becomes the first high school fraternity in North America at Brockport Normal School, [[Brockport, New York]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; England's first residential university-level [[women's college]], the College for Women (predecessor of [[Girton College, Cambridge]]), is founded at [[Hitchin]], by [[Emily Davies]] and [[Barbara Bodichon]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published in London, edited by [[Norman Lockyer]].
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[1869 college football season#First football game ever played|The first game of American football between two American colleges]] is played. [[Rutgers University]] defeats [[Princeton University]] 6–4, in a forerunner to [[American football]] and [[College football]].
* [[November 17]] &ndash; In [[Egypt]], the [[Suez Canal]], linking the [[Mediterranean Sea]] with the [[Red Sea]], is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
* [[November 19]] &ndash; The [[Hudson's Bay Company]] surrenders its claim to [[Rupert's Land]] in Canada, under its [[letters patent]], back to the [[British Crown]].<ref name=CBH/>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; In [[Dumbarton]], Scotland, the [[clipper]] ship ''[[Cutty Sark]]'' is launched (it is one of the last clippers built, and the only one to survive in the United Kingdom).<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
* [[December]] &ndash; [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s novel ''[[War and Peace]]'' is published in complete book form, in Russia.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; American outlaw [[Jesse James]] commits his first confirmed bank robbery, in [[Gallatin, Missouri]].
* [[December 8]] &ndash; The [[First Vatican Council]] opens in Rome.
* [[December 10]]
** [[Women's suffrage]]: The [[Wyoming]] territorial legislature gives women the right to vote, the first such law in the world.
** The first American chapter of [[Kappa Sigma]] is founded at the [[University of Virginia]].
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Paraguayan War]]: Triple Alliance forces take [[Asunción]].