The owner of Neuschwanstein, the castle that inspired Disney, lived there for just 172 days.
Ludwig II began it in 1869, and within six weeks of his death in 1886 it was opened to paying visitors.
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- 1869 1869: in March Mendeleev presented his periodic table, and in November the Suez Canal opened.
- 1869 · 1871 Aida was not written for the opening of the Suez Canal.
- 1869 The biggest gold nugget ever found lay just 3 cm below the surface.
- 1869 P. T. Barnum exhibited a fake of a fake.
- 1869 · 1872 Phileas Fogg's race was made possible by 1869.
- 1869 Margarine was invented for a prize offered by Napoleon III. The emperor wanted cheap butter for the army and the poor, and in 1869 the chemist Mège-Mouriès won with oleomargarine made from beef fat.