WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1869
Find out what all happened November to December 1869

In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today. (22. November 1869)

The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations. (11. November 1869)

American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. (7. December 1869)

In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated. (17. November 1869)

The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia. (10. December 1869)

In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. (6. November 1869)

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