1879 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1879?
- January 11, 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- February 8, 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
- 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.
- March 29, 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 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 26, 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- July 1, 1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 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 8, 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
- 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.
- 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 21, 1879 – World première of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
- December 28, 1879 – The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
- December 31, 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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