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Year '1879' ('MDCCCLXXIX') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
★ 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 attorneys 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.
★ 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 Zulus.
★ April 3
★
★ The Anti Revolutionary Party is formed in the Netherlands by Abraham Kuyper. It is the first political party formed advocating Christian Democracy; in opposition to the secularism of Dutch society, which was following a course in the militant secularism of the French Revolution.
★
★ Anglo-Zulu War: British forces successfully lift the two-month Siege of Eshowe.
★ April 4 - Sofia becomes the official capital of the Third Bulgarian State.
★ 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.
★ 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.
★ 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.
★
★ 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 carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
★ November - Occult Date of the Archangel Michael overcoming the Dragon"[1] (Reference: Eliphaz Levi, Franz von Baader, Louis Claude de St. Martin, and Rudolf Steiner).
★ 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).
★ Simmons College of Kentucky, a historically black school, is founded.
★ Hall effect discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall.
★ Somerville College, Oxford, is founded.
★ Stefan-Boltzmann law discovered by Jožef Stefan.
★ Ferdinand Cheval begins to build his ''Palais Idéal'' in France.
★ The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) was formed.
★ The Amati Modellismo firm founded in Turin, Italy.
★ Fulham F.C. was founded
★ January 1 - E. M. Forster, English writer (d. 1970)
★ January 3 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
★ January 10 - Bobby Walker, Hearts and Scotland Footballer, Record Cap Holder for 25 years(d. 1930)
★ 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 27 - Edward Steichen, Luxembourgeois-born painter/photographer (d. 1973)
★ 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)
★ 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)
★
★ 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)
★ July 22 - Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist (possibly born in 1878) (d. 1942)
★ August 8 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
★ August 13 - John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)
★ August 15 - Ethel Barrymore, stage & film actress (d. 1959)
★ August 21 - Claude Grahame White, British aviation pioneer, (d. 1959)
★ August 31 - Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)
★ 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, the 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 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
★ November 10 - Patrick Pearse, Irish patriot (d. 1916)
★ December 12 - Laura Hope Crews, stage & film actress (aunt PittyPat), (d. 1942)
★ 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)
★ ''date unknown''
★
★ Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (d. 1944)
★
★ Robert Wilson Lynd, Northern Irish essayist and writer (d. 1949)
★
★ Francis "Frank" Mcgee, ice hockey superstar (d. 1916, Battle of the Somme)
: ''See also .''
★ January 8 - Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara (b. 1793)
★ 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 2 - John Eberhard Faber, pencil manufacturer (b. 1822)
★ 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)
★ July 19 - Louis Favre, engineer
★ August 11 - George Willison Adams, Ohio abolitionist (b.1799)
★ August 30 - John Bell Hood, America Confederate general (b. 1831)
★ September 30 - Francis Gillette, politician (b. 1807)
★ November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
: ''See also .''
1. The Archangel Michael, , Rudolf, Steiner, Anthroposophic Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88010-378-7
Year '1879' ('MDCCCLXXIX') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
| Contents |
| Events of 1879 |
| January - March |
| April - June |
| July - September |
| October - December |
| Undated |
| Births |
| January - June |
| July - December |
| Deaths |
| January - June |
| July - December |
| References |
Events of 1879
January - March
★ 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 attorneys 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.
★ 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 Zulus.
April - June
★ April 3
★
★ The Anti Revolutionary Party is formed in the Netherlands by Abraham Kuyper. It is the first political party formed advocating Christian Democracy; in opposition to the secularism of Dutch society, which was following a course in the militant secularism of the French Revolution.
★
★ Anglo-Zulu War: British forces successfully lift the two-month Siege of Eshowe.
★ April 4 - Sofia becomes the official capital of the Third Bulgarian State.
★ 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.
★ 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.
★ June 14 - Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices
July - September
★ July 4
★
★ Anglo-Zulu War: The Anglo-Zulu War effectively ends at the Battle of Ulundi.
★
★ 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 - December
★ October 7 - Dual Alliance formed by Germany and Austria-Hungary
★ October 21 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
★ November - Occult Date of the Archangel Michael overcoming the Dragon"[1] (Reference: Eliphaz Levi, Franz von Baader, Louis Claude de St. Martin, and Rudolf Steiner).
★ 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).
Undated
★ Simmons College of Kentucky, a historically black school, is founded.
★ Hall effect discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall.
★ Somerville College, Oxford, is founded.
★ Stefan-Boltzmann law discovered by Jožef Stefan.
★ Ferdinand Cheval begins to build his ''Palais Idéal'' in France.
★ The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) was formed.
★ The Amati Modellismo firm founded in Turin, Italy.
★ Fulham F.C. was founded
Births
January - June
★ January 1 - E. M. Forster, English writer (d. 1970)
★ January 3 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
★ January 10 - Bobby Walker, Hearts and Scotland Footballer, Record Cap Holder for 25 years(d. 1930)
★ 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 27 - Edward Steichen, Luxembourgeois-born painter/photographer (d. 1973)
★ 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)
★ 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)
★
★ 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 - December
★ July 1 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
★ July 5 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
★ July 22 - Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist (possibly born in 1878) (d. 1942)
★ August 8 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
★ August 13 - John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)
★ August 15 - Ethel Barrymore, stage & film actress (d. 1959)
★ August 21 - Claude Grahame White, British aviation pioneer, (d. 1959)
★ August 31 - Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)
★ 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, the 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 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
★ November 10 - Patrick Pearse, Irish patriot (d. 1916)
★ December 12 - Laura Hope Crews, stage & film actress (aunt PittyPat), (d. 1942)
★ 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)
★ ''date unknown''
★
★ Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (d. 1944)
★
★ Robert Wilson Lynd, Northern Irish essayist and writer (d. 1949)
★
★ Francis "Frank" Mcgee, ice hockey superstar (d. 1916, Battle of the Somme)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
★ January 8 - Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara (b. 1793)
★ 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 2 - John Eberhard Faber, pencil manufacturer (b. 1822)
★ 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)
July - December
★ July 19 - Louis Favre, engineer
★ August 11 - George Willison Adams, Ohio abolitionist (b.1799)
★ August 30 - John Bell Hood, America Confederate general (b. 1831)
★ September 30 - Francis Gillette, politician (b. 1807)
★ November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
: ''See also .''
References
1. The Archangel Michael, , Rudolf, Steiner, Anthroposophic Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88010-378-7
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