WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JUNE 1869
Find out what all happened May to June 1869

The Folies Bergère opens in Paris. (1. May 1869)

Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. (15. May 1869)

Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War. (17. May 1869)

The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan. (4. May 1869)

Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (26. May 1869)

The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike. (10. May 1869)

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