Editing 1869 (section)

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* The investment bank [[Goldman Sachs]] is founded in New York.
* The capital of the [[Isle of Man]] moves from [[Castletown, Isle of Man|Castletown]] to [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]].
* [[Arabella Mansfield]] became the first woman in the United States awarded a license to practice law, at [[Mount Pleasant, Iowa]].
* [[James Gordon Bennett Jr.]] of the ''[[New York Herald]]'' asks [[Henry Morton Stanley]] to find Dr. [[David Livingstone]].
* The Co-operative Central Board (later [[Co-operatives UK]]) is founded in [[Manchester]], England.
* [[Friedrich Miescher]] purifies nuclein, which was then identified as [[DNA|deoxyribonucleic acid]] (DNA).
* The [[Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts]] is founded in Great Britain.
* French [[missionary]] and [[naturalist]] Père [[Armand David]] receives the skin of a [[giant panda]] from a hunter, the first time this species becomes known to a Westerner;<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441032/giant-panda|title=Giant Panda|year=2010|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]]|access-date=2010-08-09}}</ref> he also first describes a specimen of the "pocket handkerchief tree", which will be named in his honor as ''[[Davidia involucrata]]''.
* New Zealand's first university, the [[University of Otago]], is founded.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Scientific Bulletin|volume=4|issue=1|title=University of Otago|publisher=United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research|year=1979|page=54}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] coins the word "[[Agnostic]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Dixon|first=Thomas|title=Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|page=63|isbn=978-0-19-929551-7}}</ref>
* [[Campbell Soup Company]] is founded in [[New Jersey]], United States.<ref>[https://www.campbellsoupcompany.com/about-us/ About Us]</ref>
* [[Heinz]], as predecessor of [[Kraft Heinz]], a worldwide [[food processing]] and [[Cheese|cheese brand]], founded in [[Pennsylvania]], United States.<ref>[https://www.heinz.com/Heinz-Timeline The Complete History of Heinz]</ref>
* [[St. Ignatius College Prep]] in [[Chicago]] is founded, and construction on the school's main building began. It is one of only five buildings that survived the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. The building was designed by the Canadian architect Toussaint Menard in the [[Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada|Second Empire]] architecture style.
[[File:Robert Cecil, Vanity Fair, 1869-07-10.jpg|thumb|The Marquess of Salisbury caricatured by "[[Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)|Ape]]" in ''Vanity Fair''', 1869 - Carlo Pellegrini (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape]]