What Happened In December 1869 - Historical Events 1869 December

Historical Events for December, 1869

7th » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
10th » The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.

1st » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
5th » Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)
15th » Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist (d. 1946)
16th » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952)
20th » Charley Grapewin, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
22nd » Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931)
22nd » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (d. 1935)
24th » Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1952)
25th » Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author (d. 1941)
30th » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)
31st » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)

8th » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
18th » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
21st » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
26th » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)