1879 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1879?
- January 11, 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- February 8, 1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
- February 14, 1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
- February 15, 1879 – 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, 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- March 23, 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
- March 29, 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- April 5, 1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
- May 2, 1879 – The Spanish Socialist Worker‘s Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers’leader Pablo Iglesias.
- May 14, 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the ship .
- May 30, 1879 – New York, New York’s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- July 4, 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
- July 12, 1879 – The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
- August 21, 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
- August 28, 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- September 18, 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- October 7, 1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
- October 8, 1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
- October 22, 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
- December 31, 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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