| 1st January 1969 | Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World. |
| 20th January 1969 | Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America. |
| 30th January 1969 | The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. |
| 9th February 1969 | The Boeing 747 takes-off on its maiden flight. |
| 19th March 1969 | British paratroopers and marines land on the island of Anguilla. |
| 28th March 1969 | Former United States General and President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington D.C.. |
| 22nd April 1969 | Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world on his own without stopping. |
| 1st June 1969 | “Give Peace a Chance” is recorded in Montreal during the famous Bed-In for Peace protest by John Lennon. This is the first solo single recorded by a member of The Beatles. The song was released under the name Plastic Ono Band and is still a strong anthem for peace. |
| 1st July 1969 | Prince Charles is invested with the title ’Prince of Wales’ at Caernarfon in a televised ceremony. |
| 20th July 1969 | Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon. |
| 31st July 1969 | The halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom. |
| 14th August 1969 | British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland following the three-day Battle of the Bogside. |
| 26th September 1969 | The Beatles release their “Abbey Road” album, receiving critical praise and enormous commercial success. |
| 5th October 1969 | “Monty Python's Flying Circus” airs on BBC One for the first time. |
| 15th November 1969 | Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC One and ITV. |
| 19th November 1969 | Football great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. |
| 25th November 1969 | John Lennon returns his MBE medal in protest to the British government's support of the war in Vietnam. |
| 30th December 1969 | The Linwood bank robbery in Scotland leaves two police officers dead. |