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Events in the year 1869 in India.

Incumbents

  • Sir John Lawrence, Viceroy
  • Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Viceroy (from 12 January)

Events

  • La Martinière Girls' School is founded in Lucknow.

Law

  • Divorce Act
  • East India Irrigation and Canal Act (British statute)
  • East India Loan Act

Births

  • 11 April – Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (died 1944).
  • 2 October – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, political and spiritual leader in India and the Indian independence movement, born (died 1948).

Deaths

  • 15 February - Ghalib, Persian and Urdu poet. (b. 27 December 1797)

References