WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1869
Find out what all happened September to November 1869

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich. (22. September 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)

"Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. (24. September 1869)

Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. (16. October 1869)

The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". (16. October 1869)

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

The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer. (5. October 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)

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)