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1879
(
MDCCCLXXIX
) was a
common year starting on Wednesday
(see link for calendar).
1879
January-February
March-April
May-December
Unknown dates
January-April
May-August
September-December
Unknown dates
Deaths
top
January-February
January 1
- The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The
Greenback
is valued the same as
Gold
for the first time since the Civil War.
January - The current constitution of The State of
California
, US was ratified.
January 2
-
Fred Spofforth
claims the first
Hat-trick
in
test cricket
.
January 11
-
Anglo-Zulu War
begins.
January 22
-
Zulu
troops massacre
British
troops at the
Battle of Isandlwana
. At
Rorke's Drift
, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.
February 12
- At
New York City
's
Madison Square Garden
the first artificial
ice rink
in
North America
opens.
February 14
- At
Antofagasta
,
Chile
: Chilean troops disembark in this port, then Bolivian. This is the beginning of the
War of the Pacific
between Chile and the joint forces of
Peru
and
Bolivia
.
February 15
-
Women's rights
: American
President
Rutherford B. Hayes
signs a bill allowing female
attorney
s to argue cases before the
Supreme Court of the United States
.
February 22
- In
Utica, New York
,
Frank Woolworth
opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
February 27
- The discovery of
saccharin
is announced.
top
March-April
March 3
- The
United States Geological Survey
is created
March 12
-
Anglo-Zulu War
: A
British
force over one-hundred strong is
ambushed and destroyed by Zulu forces
.
March 13
- Marriage of
The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
, third son of
Queen Victoria
, to
Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia
.
March 14
-
Albert Einstein
: German-born physicist who would go on to revolutionize modern Physics.
March 28
-
Anglo-Zulu War
:
British
forces suffer a defeat at the
Battle of Hlobane
.
March 29
-
Anglo-Zulu War
:
Battle of Kambula
:
British
forces defeat 20,000
Zulu
s.
April 3
-
Anglo-Zulu War
:
British
forces successfully lift the two-month
Siege of Eshowe
.
April 21
(
San Jacinto Day
) -
Texas
governor
Oran M. Roberts authorized the establishment of Sam Houston Normal Institute (today known as
Sam Houston State University
).
April 24
- Swedish explorer
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
arrives in
Stockholm
with the
S/S Vega
, concluding the world's first
circumnavigation
of
Eurasia
.
top
May-December
May 26
-
Russia
and the
United Kingdom
sign the
Treaty of Gandamak
establishing an
Afghan state
.
May 30
-
New York City
's Gilmores Garden is renamed
Madison Square Garden
by
William Henry Vanderbilt
and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
May 30
- A
F4
tornado
struck Irving,
Kansas
, killing 18 people and injuring 60.
June 14
-
Sidney Faithorn Green
, an
Anglican
priest
in the
Church of England
, is tried and convicted for using
Ritualist
practices
July 4
-
Anglo-Zulu War
: The
Anglo-Zulu War
effectively ends at the
Battle of Ulundi
.
July 4
-
Taughannock Giant
unearthed on the shore of
Cayuga Lake
in
Ithaca, New York
(later proven to be a hoax).
July 19
-
Doc Holliday
kills for the first time after a man shoots-up Holliday's
New Mexico
saloon.
August 21
-
Virgin Mary
, along with
St. Joseph
and
St. John the Evangelist
appeared in
Knock
to local people.
October 7
-
Dual Alliance
formed by
Germany
and
Austria-Hungary
October 21
- Using a filament of
carbon
ized thread,
Thomas Edison
tests the first practical electric
light bulb
(it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
December 28
- The central part of the
Tay Rail Bridge
in
Dundee, Scotland
collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
December 30
-
The Pirates of Penzance
is first performed (
Paignton
,
Devon
,
England
).
December 31
-
Thomas Edison
demonstrates
incandescent lighting
to the public for the first time (
Menlo Park, New Jersey
).
top
Unknown dates
Simmons College of Kentucky
, a historically black school, is founded.
Hall effect
discovered by Dr.
Edwin Hall
.
Somerville College
founded.
Stefan-Boltzmann law
discovered by
Jožef Stefan
.
Football
first played in
Shepshed
.
Irish Land League
convinces tenants of
Charles Boycott
and neighboring townsfolk to isolate him by noncooperation - first
boycott
Ferdinand Cheval
begins to build his
Palais Idéal
in France
The
Archaeological Institute of America
(AIA) was formed
top
January-April
January 1
-
E. M. Forster
, English writer (d.
1970
)
January 3
-
Grace Coolidge
,
First Lady of the United States
(d.
1957
)
January 12
-
Ray Harroun
, American race car driver (d.
1968
)
January 13
-
Melvin Jones
, American founder of Lions Clubs International (d.
1961
)
January 28
-
Francis Picabia
, French painter and poet (d.
1953
)
February 22
-
J. N. Brønsted
, Danish chemist (d.
1947
)
February 26
-
Frank Bridge
, English composer (d.
1941
)
March 8
-
Otto Hahn
, German chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1968
)
March 14
-
Albert Einstein
, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1955
)
March 26
-
Othmar Ammann
, Swiss-born engineer (d.
1965
)
March 30
-
Coen de Koning
, Dutch speed skater (d.
1954
)
April 16
-
Gala Galaction
, Romanian writer (d.
1961
)
April 20
-
Paul Poiret
, French couturier (d.
1944
)
April 26
-
Owen Willans Richardson
, British physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1959
)
April 29
- Sir
Thomas Beecham
, English conductor (d.
1961
)
top
May-August
May 6
-
Bedřich Hrozny´
, Czech orientalist and linguist (d.
1952
)
May 17
-
Simon Petlyura
, Ukrainian independence fighter (d.
1926
)
May 19
-
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
, American-born politician (d.
1964
)
May 19
-
Viscount Waldorf Astor
, British businessman and politician (d.
1952
)
May 22
-
Alla Nazimova
, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress (d.
1945
)
May 23
-
Dezső Lauber
, Hungarian sportsman (d.
1966
)
May 25
-
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
, Canadian-born statesman and newspaper publisher (d.
1964
)
June 3
-
Raymond Pearl
, American biologist (d.
1940
)
June 10
-
Rafael Erich
, Prime minister of Finland (d.
1946
)
July 1
-
Léon Jouhaux
, French labor leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(d.
1954
)
July 5
-
Wanda Landowska
, Polish harpsichordist (d.
1959
)
August 8
-
Emiliano Zapata
, Mexican revolutionary (d.
1919
)
August 13
-
John Ireland
, English composer (d.
1962
)
August 31
-
Emperor Yoshihito
, 123rd
Emperor of Japan
(d.
1926
)
top
September-December
September 2
-
An Jung-geun
, assassin of the Japanese politician
Ito Hirobumi
(d.
1910
)
September 6
-
Joseph Wirth
,
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
1956
)
September 14
-
Margaret Sanger
, American birth control advocate (d.
1966
)
September 15
-
Joseph Lyons
, tenth
Prime Minister of Australia
(d.
1939
)
September 20
-
Victor Sjöström
, Swedish film actor and director (d.
1960
)
October 2
-
Wallace Stevens
, American poet (d.
1955
)
October 3
-
Warner Oland
, Swedish-born actor (d.
1938
)
October 5
-
Francis Peyton Rous
, American pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d.
1970
)
October 9
-
Max von Laue
, German physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1960
)
October 21
-
Joseph Canteloube
, French composer and singer (d.
1957
)
October 29
-
Franz von Papen
,
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
1969
)
November 4
-
Will Rogers
, American humorist (d.
1935
)
November 7
-
Leon Trotsky
, Russian revolutionary (d.
1940
)
November 10
-
Patrick Pearse
, Irish patriot (d.
1916
)
November 26
-
Charles W. Goddard
, playwright and screenwriter (d.
1951
)
December 3
-
Nagai Kafu
, Japanese writer (d.
1959
)
December 10
-
Jouett Shouse
, American politician (d.
1968
)
December 18
-
Paul Klee
, Swiss artist (d.
1940
)
December 28
-
Billy Mitchell
, U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (d.
1936
)
top
Unknown dates
Joseph Campbell
, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (d.
1944
)
Robert Wilson Lynd
, Northern Irish essayist and writer (d.
1949
)
Francis "Frank" Mcgee
, Hockey superstar (d. 1916,
Battle of the Somme
)
top
Deaths
February 11
-
Honoré Daumier
, French caricaturist and painter (b.
1808
)
February 23
-
Albrecht Graf von Roon
,
Prime Minister of Prussia
(b.
1803
)
February 25
-
Charles Peace
, British criminal (executed) (b.
1832
)
March 1
-
Joachim Heer
, Swiss politician (b.
1825
)
March 30
-
Thomas Couture
, French painter and teacher (b.
1815
)
April 30
-
Sarah Josepha Hale
, American author (b.
1788
)
June 1
-
Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial
, son of French Emperor
Napoleon III
(b.
1856
)
August 30
-
John Bell Hood
, America Confederate general (b.
1831
)
November 5
-
James Clark Maxwell
, Scottish physicist (b.
1831
)
August 11
-
George Willison Adams
, Ohio abolitionist (b.
1799
)
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