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 India Years of the 19th century in India