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[[Centuries]]: [[Year in Review 19th Century]] ([[18th century]] - '''[[19th century]]''' - [[20th century]])
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== Events ==
[[Decades]]: [[1820s]] [[1830s]] [[1840s]] [[1850s]] [[1860s]] - '''[[1870s]]''' - [[1880s]] [[1890s]] [[1900s]] [[1910s]] [[1920s]]
===January–March===
* [[January 1]] – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The [[United States Note]] is valued the same as [[gold]], for the first time since the [[American Civil War]].
* [[January 11]] – The [[Anglo-Zulu War]] begins.
* [[January 22]] – [[Anglo-Zulu War]] – [[Battle of Isandlwana]]: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors.[[File:Isandhlwana.jpg|thumb|January 22: [[Battle of Isandlwana]]]]
* [[January 23]] – [[Anglo-Zulu War]] – [[Battle of Rorke's Drift]]: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus.[[File:Alphonse de Neuville - The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|January 22–23: [[Battle of Rorke's Drift]]]]
* [[February 3]] &ndash; Mosley Street in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric [[incandescent light bulb]] invented by [[Joseph Swan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=1879|work=Co-Curate|url=https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/1879/history/|accessdate=2022-03-21}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; At a meeting of the [[Royal Canadian Institute]], engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming]] first proposes the global adoption of [[standard time]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[United States Geological Survey]] is founded.
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The [[Ryukyu Domain]] is incorporated into the [[Okinawa Prefecture]] of [[Japan]] and the last ruler, [[Shō Tai]], exiled to Tokyo.
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Hlobane]]: British forces suffer a defeat.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kambula]]: British forces defeat 20,000 [[Zulu people|Zulu]]s.


=== April&ndash;June ===
Years: [[1874]] [[1875]] [[1876]] [[1877]] [[1878]] - '''1879''' - [[1880]] [[1881]] [[1882]] [[1883]] [[1884]]
* [[April]] &ndash; Postman [[Ferdinand Cheval]] begins to build his ''Palais Idéal'' at Hauterives in France.
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[War of the Pacific]]: Chile formally declares war on Bolivia and Peru.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Pacific, War of the|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Wars|editor=Kohn, George C.|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2006|page=389}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Mary Baker Eddy]] founds the [[Church of Christ, Scientist]] in [[Boston]], Massachusetts.
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The National Park, later renamed the [[Royal National Park]], is declared in [[New South Wales]], Australia, the world's second-oldest purposed national park.
* [[May 2]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (''Partido Socialista Obrero Español'') is founded clandestinely at the ''Casa Labra'' [[tavern]] in [[Madrid]], by printer [[Pablo Iglesias Posse|Pablo Iglesias]].<ref>{{cite web|title=El Partido Socialista se fundó en 1879|url=http://www.psoe.es/ambito/historiapsoe/docs/index.do?action=View&id=992|publisher=PSOE|access-date=2013-02-08}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; The current [[constitution of the State of California]] in the United States is ratified.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The [[Archaeological Institute of America]] (AIA) is formed.
* [[May 12]] &ndash; English Catholic convert [[John Henry Newman]] is elevated to [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; The first group of 463 [[Indian indenture system|Indian indentured labourers]] arrive in [[Fiji]], aboard the ''[[Leonidas (ship)|Leonidas]]''.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; Russia and the United Kingdom sign the [[Treaty of Gandamak]], establishing an [[Afghan state]].
* [[May 30]] &ndash; New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed [[Madison Square Garden (1879)|Madison Square Garden]] by [[William Henry Vanderbilt]] and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]]: [[Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] of France, son of [[Napoléon III]], is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army.<ref name="Dodd, Mead & Co">{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilman |editor1-first=Daniel Coit |editor2-last=Peck |editor2-first=Harry Thurston |editor3-last=Colby |editor3-first=Frank Moore |title=The New International Encyclopaedia |date=1906 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |page=246 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTorAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=NAPOLEON, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Yasukuni Shrine]] is officially renamed from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in [[Japan]].<ref>[[:ja:靖国神社#歴史]] (Japanese language) Retrieved January 7, 2017.</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[William Denny and Brothers]] launch the world's first ocean-going steamer to be built of [[mild steel]], the [[Rotomahana (ship)|SS ''Rotomahana'']], on the [[River Clyde]] in Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=SS Rotomahana|work=Clydebuilt|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312163620/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2005-03-12|access-date=2014-04-14}}</ref> On [[October 2]] they launch the first [[Transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] steamer of the same material, the SS ''Buenos Ayrean''; on [[December 1]] she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow, bound for South America.<ref>{{cite web|title=S/S Buenos Ayrean, Allan Line|url=http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=bueay|work=Norway Heritage|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Sidney Faithorn Green]], a priest in the [[Church of England]], is tried and convicted for using [[Ritualism in the Church of England|Ritualist]] practices.
* [[June 21]] &ndash; German chemical company ''[[The Linde Group|Linde]]'' is founded by [[Carl von Linde]].
* [[June 30]] &ndash; The [[1879 Surigao earthquake]] measuring {{M|w}} 7.4 causes major damage in the northern tip of Mindanao Island.<ref name="Perez & Tsutsumi">{{cite journal |author1=Jeffrey S. Perez |author2=Hiroyuki Tsutsumi |title=Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Surigao segment of the Philippine fault in northeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines |journal=[[Tectonophysics (journal)|Tectonophysics]] |date=2017 |volume=699 |pages=244–257 |doi=10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.001 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195117300471|publisher=[[Elsevier]]|bibcode=2017Tectp.699..244P }}</ref>


=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 1]]
** An [[1879 Gansu earthquake|8.0 earthquake]] shakes southern [[Gansu]], killing 22,000 people.
** American [[Christian Restorationism|Christian Restorationist]] [[Charles Taze Russell]] publishes the first issue of the monthly ''Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence'' which, as ''[[The Watchtower]]'', will become the [[List of magazines by circulation|most widely circulated magazine]] in the world.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ulundi]]: A British victory effectively ends the war.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[July 8]] &ndash; Led by [[George W. De Long]], the ill-fated United States [[Jeannette Expedition|''Jeannette'' Expedition]] departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the [[North Pole]], by pioneering a route through the [[Bering Strait]].
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The city of [[Kotka]] is founded in [[Kymenlaakso]], [[Finland]], by separating its two islands from the [[Kymi, Finland|old Kymi parish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heraldik.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HT.1961.1.03.s119.pdf|title=Tre finländska stadsvapens historia|publisher=Heraldisk tidskrift|author=Bo Tennberg|language=Swedish|page=120|date=1961|accessdate=10 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Tokio Marine]] (insurer) is founded in Japan, as Tokio Marine Holdings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Group History |url=https://www.tokiomarinehd.com/en/company/history/ |website=Tokio Marine Holdings}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Fulham F.C.]] is founded in London as a church soccer team.
* [[August 21]] &ndash; Claimed apparition to local people at [[Knock Shrine|Knock, County Mayo, Ireland]], of the [[Marian apparition|Blessed Virgin Mary]], [[Saint Joseph]], [[Saint John the Evangelist]] and [[Jesus Christ]] (as the [[Lamb of God]]).
* [[September]] &ndash; [[Henry George]] self-publishes his major work ''[[Progress and Poverty]]''.<ref>Commercially published in [[1880]] by [[D. Appleton & Company]], New York.</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; A fire in [[The Octagon, Dunedin]] (New Zealand), claims 12 victims.
* [[September 19]] &ndash; The [[Blackpool Illuminations]] in England are switched on for the first time.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; The [[Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society]] is founded.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://life.hotnews.ro/stiri-prin_oras-23377159-moment-aniversar-referinta-societatea-cultura-macedo-romana-implineste-140-ani-infiintare-baneadza-armanamea.htm|title=Moment aniversar de referință: Societatea de Cultură Macedo-Română împlinește 140 de ani de la înființare. S-bâneadzâ Armânamea!|first=Ionuț|last=Băiaș|newspaper=[[HotNews]]|date=20 September 2019|language=ro}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; A fire in [[Deadwood, South Dakota]], leaves 2,000 people homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3&nbsp;million.
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Marr]] founds the ''[[:de:Antisemitenliga|Antisemitenliga]]'' (League of Antisemites),<ref>{{cite book|title=Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism|last=Zimmermann|first=Moshe|location=New York; Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=71}}</ref> the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Meeker Massacre]]: [[Nathan Meeker]] and others are killed in an uprising at the [[White River (Green River)|White River]] Ute [[Indian reservation]] in [[Colorado]].


===October&ndash;December===
'''Events'''
[[Image:Light Bulb.jpg|thumb|October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests his first practical electric light bulb]]
*[[October 1]] &ndash; [[University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band]] is founded in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]. The group would go on to perform the first football [[halftime show]] in [[1892]] and, under Director Donald A. Lentz, invent [[Band Day]].
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Qing dynasty]] China signs the [[Treaty of Livadia]] with the [[Russian Empire]] on terms so unfavorable to China that its emissary is threatened with execution.
* [[October 7]] &ndash; The [[Dual Alliance (1879)|Dual Alliance]] is formed by [[German Empire|Germany]] and [[Austria-Hungary]].
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[War of the Pacific]]: [[Battle of Angamos]] &ndash; The Chilean Navy defeats Peruvian naval forces.
* [[October 13]] &ndash; The first female students are admitted to study for degrees of the [[University of Oxford]] in England, at the new [[Lady Margaret Hall]] and [[Somerville College|Somerville Hall]], and with the [[St Anne's College, Oxford|Society of Oxford Home-Students]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=303–04|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Sunderland Association Football Club]] is formed by a group of schoolteachers in northeast England.
* [[October 22]] &ndash; Using a filament of [[carbon]]ized thread, [[Thomas Edison]] tests his first practical electric [[light bulb]] (it lasts {{frac|13|1|2}} hours before burning out).
* [[October 28]] &ndash; The [[Hall effect]] is discovered by [[Edwin Hall]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in the United States.
* [[November]]
** Land is acquired for [[Simmons College of Kentucky]], an [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black school]], established as a Baptist institution.
** The Age of [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] begins, according to French occultist [[Eliphas Levi]] and [[Johannes Trithemius]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Rudolf|editor=Bamford, Christopher|orig-year=1917|year=1994|title=The Archangel Michael|publisher=Anthroposophic Press|location=Hudson, New York|isbn=0-88010-378-7}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] applies for a patent for his invention of the [[incandescent light bulb]] (U.S. Patent 223,898 will be granted on [[January 27]], [[1880]]).<ref>{{cite book|first=Abbott Payson|last=Usher|title=A History of Mechanical Inventions|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|year=1954|page=402}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] &ndash; The [[Bell Telephone Company]] and [[Western Union]] reach an agreement in the United States, in which the former agrees to stay out of telegraphy and the latter to keep out of the telephone business.<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard A.|last=Schwarzlose|title=The Nation's Newsbrokers: The Rush to Institution: From 1865 to 1920|publisher=Northwestern University Press|location=Evanston, IL|year=1990|page=84}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s controversial drama ''[[A Doll's House]]'' premières at the [[Royal Danish Theatre]] in [[Copenhagen]] (having been first published on [[December 4]] in the city).
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Tay Bridge disaster]]: The central part of the [[Tay Rail Bridge]] at [[Dundee]], Scotland, collapses in a storm as a train passes over it, killing 75.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[December 31]]
** [[Thomas Edison]] demonstrates [[incandescent lighting]] to the public for the first time, in [[Menlo Park, New Jersey]].
** [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s [[comic opera]] ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' opens at the [[Fifth Avenue Theatre]] in [[New York City]] (following a token performance the day before for U.K. copyright reasons in [[Paignton]], [[Devon]]).<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>


=== Date unknown ===
* Colonel [[Ahmed ‘Urabi]] forms the [[Egyptian Nationalist Party]].
* The [[Stefan–Boltzmann law]] is discovered by [[Jozef Stefan]].
* [[Wilhelm Wundt]] establishes the first psychological research laboratory, at the [[University of Leipzig]].
* [[Tetteh Quarshie]] first brings [[cocoa bean]]s to [[Ghana]] from [[Equatorial Guinea]].
* [[Gottlob Frege]] publishes ''[[Begriffsschrift]], eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens'' in Halle, a significant text in the development of [[mathematical logic]].


'''Births'''
== Births ==
===January&ndash;March===
*[[March 14]]: [[Albert Einstein]], scientist.
[[File:Grace Coolidge 1924.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Grace Coolidge]]]]
*[[Joseph Stalin]], Soviet leader
[[File:Otto Hahn (Nobel).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto Hahn]]]]
*[[Leon Trotsky]], Russian revolutionary
[[File:Einstein 1933.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Albert Einstein]]]]
* [[January 1]]
**[[E. M. Forster]], English writer (d. [[1970]])
**[[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]], Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the [[Fox Film Corporation]] and [[Fox Theatres]] (d. 1952)
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Grace Coolidge]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1957]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Calbraith Perry Rodgers]], American pioneer aviator, makes first transcontinental U.S. flight (d. [[1912]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Ruth St. Denis]], American dancer (d. [[1968]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Betty Kuuskemaa]], Estonian actress (d. [[1966]])
** [[Francis Picabia]], French painter, poet (d. [[1953]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Magnús Guðmundsson]], 3rd prime minister of Iceland (d. [[1937]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Sarojini Naidu]], Indian independence activist and poet (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Hod Stuart]], Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. [[1907]])
* [[February 22]]
**[[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]], Danish chemist (d. [[1947]])
**[[Norman Lindsay]], Australian painter (d. [[1969]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Frank Bridge]], English composer (d. [[1941]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[William P. Cronan]], 19th [[Naval Governor of Guam]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Otto Hahn]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Alfredo Kindelán]], Spanish general and politician (d. [[1962]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Albert Einstein]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1955]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Emma Carus]], American opera singer (d. [[1927]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Maud Menten]], Canadian biochemist and medical researcher (d. [[1960]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Othmar Ammann]], Swiss-born American engineer (d. [[1965]])
* [[March 27]]
** [[Sándor Garbai]], Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1947]])
** [[Edward Steichen]], Luxembourgeois-born American painter and photographer (d. [[1973]])


===April&ndash;June===
[[File:Ahmad nami.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ahmad Nami]]]]
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van Raden Ajeng Kartini TMnr 10018776.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Kartini]]]]
[[File:Richárd Weisz 1908 matchbox label 2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Richárd Weisz]]]]
[[File:Georgia Ann Robinson.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georgia Ann Robinson]]]]
*[[April 1]] &ndash; [[Mary J. L. Black]], Canadian librarian and suffragist (d. [[1939]])
*[[April 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Meighan]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Schmidt]], German-Estonian optician, inventor (d. [[1935]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Gala Galaction]], Romanian writer (d. [[1961]])
* [[April 20]]
** [[Italo Gariboldi]], Italian general (d. [[1970]])
** [[Robert Wilson Lynd]], Irish essayist, writer (d. [[1949]])
** [[Paul Poiret]], French couturier (d. [[1944]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Kartini]], Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (d. [[1904]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Owen Willans Richardson]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1959]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; Sir [[Thomas Beecham]], English conductor (d. [[1961]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Richárd Weisz]], Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_j1DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Rich%C3%A1rd+Weisz%22+jewish&pg=PA270|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|first=Joseph|last=Siegman|date=August 1, 2020|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9781496222121|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Bedřich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist, linguist (d. [[1952]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Ahmad Nami]], Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5th [[Prime Minister of Syria]] and 2nd [[President of Syria]] (d. [[1962]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[George Landenberger]], [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (USN)|Captain]] and the 23rd [[Governor of American Samoa]] (d. [[1936]])
** [[Georgia Ann Robinson]], community worker, first [[African Americans|African-American]] woman to be appointed a [[Los Angeles]] [[police officer]] (d. [[1961]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Gustaf Aulén]], Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (d. [[1977]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor]], American-born British politician, wife of [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor]] (d. [[1964]])
** [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor]], British businessman, politician, husband of [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Hans Meerwein]], German chemist (d. [[1965]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Alla Nazimova]], Russian-born American stage, film actress (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook]], Canadian-born British statesman and newspaper publisher (d. [[1964]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Lucile Watson]], Canadian-born American film, stage actress (d. [[1962]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Milutin Milanković]], Serbian scientist (d. [[1958]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Raymond Pearl]], American biologist (d. [[1940]])
*[[June 4]] &ndash; [[Mabel Lucie Attwell]], British illustrator (d. 1964)
*[[June 9]] &ndash; [[Joseph Avenol]], 2nd Secretary General of the [[League of Nations]] (d. 1952)
*[[June 7]] &ndash; [[Knud Rasmussen]], Danish polar explorer, anthropologist (d. 1933)
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Rafael Erich]], Prime Minister of Finland (d. [[1946]])
* [[June 13]]
**[[Charalambos Tseroulis]], Greek general (d. [[1929]])
**[[Lois Weber]], American film director, screenwriter (d. [[1939]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Huda Sha'arawi]], Egyptian feminist (d. [[1947]])


===July&ndash;September===
'''Deaths'''
[[File:Emperor Taishō (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emperor Taishō]]]]
*[[February 11]]: [[Honore Daumier]], caricaturist/painter.
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146III-105, Joseph Wirth.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joseph Wirth]]]]
*[[February 11]]: [[Willem J van Zeggelen]], Dutch author.
[[File:Joseph Lyons.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joseph Lyons]]]]
[[File:Emiliano Zapata.tiff|thumb|110px|[[Emiliano Zapata]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Léon Jouhaux]], French labour leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1954]])
* [[July 5]]
** [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish harpsichordist, musicologist (d. [[1959]])
** [[José Millán-Astray]], Spanish general, founder of the [[Spanish Legion]] (d. [[1954]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Ottorino Respighi]], Italian composer, musicologist and conductor (d. [[1936]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Joseph Campbell (poet)|Joseph Campbell]], Irish poet, lyricist (d. [[1944]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Janusz Korczak]] (pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician and child pedagogist (b. 1878 or [[#Births|1879]]) (d. [[1942]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Shunroku Hata]], Japanese field marshal (d. [[1962]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Lucy Burns]], American women's rights campaigner (d. [[1966]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Hisaichi Terauchi]], Japanese field marshal (d. [[1946]])
** [[Emiliano Zapata]], Mexican revolutionary (d. [[1919]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]], English composer and organist (d. [[1962]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Ethel Barrymore]], American film and stage actress (d. [[1959]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Claude Grahame-White]], British aviation pioneer (d. [[1959]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Yevgenia Bosch]], Ukrainian politician (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Fritzi Scheff]], Viennese-born American actress and singer (d. [[1954]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Isidro Ayora]], 22nd president of Ecuador (d. [[1978]])
** [[Emperor Taishō]], 123rd [[Emperor of Japan]] (d. [[1926]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Max Schreck]], German actor (d. [[1936]])
** [[Joseph Wirth]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Margaret Sanger]], American birth control advocate (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Sanger {{!}} Biography, Birth Control, & Significance |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Sanger |website=Britannica |access-date=7 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Joseph Lyons]], 10th [[Prime Minister of Australia]], [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. [[1939]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Victor Sjöström]], Swedish film actor, director (d. [[1960]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Shinobu Ishihara]], Japanese ophthalmologist and professor (d. [[1963]])
** [[Lope K. Santos]], Filipino writer and grammarian (d. [[1963]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Hans Hahn (mathematician)|Hans Hahn]], Austrian mathematician (d. [[1934]])
** [[Cyril Scott]], English composer and writer (d. [[1970]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U0205-502, Max von Laue.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max von Laue]]]]
[[File:Trotsky Portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Leon Trotsky]]]]
[[File:Paul Klee 1911.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Klee]]]]
[[File:Prudencia Grifell c. 1904 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Prudencia Grifell]]]]
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Wallace Stevens]], American poet (d. [[1955]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Warner Oland]], Swedish-born American actor (d. [[1938]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Francis Peyton Rous]], American pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Max von Laue]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1960]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Jane Darwell]], American actress (d. [[1967]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Marinelli]], Italian Fascist political leader (d. [[1944]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Joseph Canteloube]], French composer, singer (d. [[1957]])
** [[Eugene Burton Ely]], American pioneer aviator (d. [[1911]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Fritz Haarmann]], German serial killer (d. [[1925]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Franz von Papen]], German diplomat and politician; Chancellor (1932) and Vice-Chancellor (1933–34; under Adolf Hitler) (d. [[1969]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Pál Teleki]], 2-time prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1941]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Will Rogers]], Native American humorist (d. [[1935]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Leon Trotsky]], Russian revolutionary (d. [[1940]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[S. O. Davies]], oldest post-war British MP (d. [[1972]])
* [[November 10]]
** [[Vachel Lindsay]], American poet (d. [[1931]])
** [[Patrick Pearse]], Irish rebel leader (d. [[1916]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Lewis Stone]], American stage, film actor, known for playing ''Judge Hardy'' (d. [[1953]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Nagai Kafu]], Japanese writer (d. [[1959]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Clyde Cessna]], American aviator, aircraft designer, manufacturer (d. [[1954]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[E. H. Shepard]], English artist, book illustrator (d. [[1976]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Laura Hope Crews]], American film, stage actress (d. [[1942]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Paul Klee]], Swiss artist (d. [[1940]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Ion G. Duca]], 35th prime minister of Romania (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Prudencia Grifell]], Spanish-born Mexican actress (d. [[1970]])
** [[Sydney Greenstreet]], British-born American film, stage actor (d. [[1954]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Billy Mitchell]], U.S. general, military aviation pioneer (d. [[1936]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Florence Mary Taylor]], Australia's first female architect (d. [[1969]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Ramana Maharshi]], Indian [[Sage (philosophy)|sage]], [[jivanmukta]] (d. [[1950]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Abdallah Beyhum]], 10th prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1962]])
* Ali Muhammad Shibli, Bengali revolutionary (d. unknown)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sengupta, Subodha|editor=Bose, Anjali|title=সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান|language=bn|volume=1|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|location=[[Kolkata]]}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Heinrich Geissler.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Heinrich Geissler]]]]
[[File:Bernadette Soubirous.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Saint [[Bernadette Soubirous]]]]
[[File:Sarah Hale portrait.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Sarah Josepha Hale|Sarah Hale]]]]
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* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara|Baldomero Espartero]], Spanish general, regent and Prime Minister (b. [[1793]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Geißler]], German physicist (b. [[1814]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[John Cadwalader (jurist)|John Cadwalader]], American jurist and politician (b. [[1805]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Hugh M'Neile]], Irish-born English Anglican priest. (b. [[1795]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Honoré Daumier]], French caricaturist and painter (b. [[1808]])<ref>Rey, Robert (1965). ''Daumier'', The Librarey of Great Painters. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New York. 160 pp.</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Sher Ali Khan]], ruler of Afghanistan (b. [[1825]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Albrecht Graf von Roon]], Prime Minister of Prussia (b. [[1803]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Hortense Allart]], French writer (b. [[1801]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=Helynne Hollstein|title=Hortense Allart: the woman and the novelist|date=1998|publisher=[[University Press of America]]|location=Lanham, Md |isbn=076181213X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VU6CwwGMHaIC&pg=PR11|page=11}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Joachim Heer]], Swiss politician (b. [[1825]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[John Eberhard Faber]], German-born American pencil manufacturer (b. [[1822]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[William Kingdon Clifford]], English mathematician and philosopher (b. [[1845]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis]], German prince (b. [[1843]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[John George Woodford|Sir John Woodford]], British army general and archaeologist (b. [[1785]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Juan Antonio Pezet]], Peruvian general and politician, [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1809]])
* [[March 27]]
** [[Hércules Florence]], Brazilian photographer (b. [[1804]])
** [[Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868–1879)|Prince Waldemar of Prussia]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Thomas Couture]], French painter and teacher (b. [[1815]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Richard Taylor (Confederate general)|Richard Taylor]], American Confederate general (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Bernadette Soubirous]], French [[Roman Catholic]] saint (b. [[1844]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Clara Rousby]], English actress (b. [[1848]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti]], Italian botanist (b. [[1799]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Sarah Josepha Hale]], American author (b. [[1788]])<ref>Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. ''The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205. {{ISBN|0-19-503186-5}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Félix Douay]], French general (b. [[1816]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[Epameinondas Deligeorgis]], Greek politician, 20th [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. [[1829]])
** [[Henry Sewell]], New Zealand politician, 1st [[Premier of New Zealand]] (b. [[1807]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Gottfried Semper]], German architect (b. [[1803]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Douer | first = Alisa | title = Wien, Heldenplatz : Mythen und Massen 1848-1998 | publisher = Mandelbaum | location = Wien | year = 1998 | isbn = 9783854760160 | page=25}}</ref>
** [[George Fife Angas]], English coachbuilder, businessman and politician, founder of [[South Australia]] (b. [[1789]])<ref>{{cite journal | last=Coventry | first=C.J. | title=Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia | journal=Before/Now | volume=1 | issue=1 | date=22 March 2019 | pages=27–46 | url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:23671/ | access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Arturo Prat]], Chilean lawyer and navy officer (b. [[1848]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[William Lloyd Garrison]], American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer (b. [[1805]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Napoléon, Prince Imperial]], son of French Emperor [[Napoleon III]] (b. [[1856]])<ref name="Dodd, Mead & Co"/>
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Frances Ridley Havergal]], English religious poet (b. [[1836]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Humphreys | first = Maggie | title = Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland | publisher = Mansell | location = London Herndon, VA | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780720123302 | page=152}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[William Tilbury Fox]], English dermatologist (b. [[1836]])<ref>{{Cite journal | title = Obituary&nbsp;— Tilbury Fox, M.D | journal = [[BMJ]] | publisher = [[BMJ Group]] | volume = 1 | issue = 963 | pages = 915–916 | date = 14 June 1879 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.963.915-b | s2cid = 220233024 }}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[William, Prince of Orange]], heir to Dutch throne (b. [[1840]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Miguel María Grau Seminario.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Miguel Grau Seminario|Miguel Grau]]]]
[[File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|thumb|110px|right|[[James Clerk Maxwell]]]]
[[File:Louisa S. McCord.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord|Louisa McCord]]]]
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Béla Wenckheim]], 8th prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1811]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Maurycy Gottlieb]], Polish painter (b. [[1856]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Louis Favre (engineer)|Louis Favre]], French engineer (b. [[1826]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Ivan Davidovich Lazarev]], Russian general (b. [[1820]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Anđeo Kraljević]], Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b. [[1807]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[John Bell Hood]], American Confederate general (b. [[1831]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[John Dennis Phelan]], American politician and jurist (b. [[1809]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Eugène Viollet-le-Duc]], French architect (b. [[1814]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[William Rowan|Sir William Rowan]], British field marshal (b. [[1789]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Francis Gillette]], American politician (b. [[1807]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Miguel Grau Seminario]], Peruvian admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1834]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Nachum Kaplan]], Lithuanian rabbi (b. [[1811]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Joseph Hooker]], American general (b. [[1814]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[James Clerk Maxwell]], Scottish physicist (b. [[1831]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=5624|title=Maxwell, James|year=2004|last=Harman|first=Peter M.}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord]], American political essayist (b. [[1810]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=Jessie Melville|title=Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|edition=Public domain|volume=91|year=1920|publisher=The University of South Carolina|page=1}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Lindheimer]], German-born botanist (b. [[1801]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Jón Sigurðsson]], campaigner for Icelandic independence (b. [[1811]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Anna Bochkoltz]], German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. [[1815]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Chō Kōran]], Japanese poet, painter (b. [[1804]])

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading and year books==
* ''Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year 1879'' [https://archive.org/details/appletonsannual48unkngoog online]

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Latest revision as of 21:25, 1 May 2024

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1879 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1879
MDCCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita2632
Armenian calendar1328
ԹՎ ՌՅԻԸ
Assyrian calendar6629
Baháʼí calendar35–36
Balinese saka calendar1800–1801
Bengali calendar1286
Berber calendar2829
British Regnal year42 Vict. 1 – 43 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2423
Burmese calendar1241
Byzantine calendar7387–7388
Chinese calendar戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4576 or 4369
    — to —
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4577 or 4370
Coptic calendar1595–1596
Discordian calendar3045
Ethiopian calendar1871–1872
Hebrew calendar5639–5640
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1935–1936
 - Shaka Samvat1800–1801
 - Kali Yuga4979–4980
Holocene calendar11879
Igbo calendar879–880
Iranian calendar1257–1258
Islamic calendar1296–1297
Japanese calendarMeiji 12
(明治12年)
Javanese calendar1807–1808
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4212
Minguo calendar33 before ROC
民前33年
Nanakshahi calendar411
Thai solar calendar2421–2422
Tibetan calendar阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
2005 or 1624 or 852
    — to —
阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
2006 or 1625 or 853

1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1879th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1879, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests his first practical electric light bulb

Date unknown[edit]

Births[edit]

January–March[edit]

Grace Coolidge
Otto Hahn
Albert Einstein

April–June[edit]

Ahmad Nami
Kartini
Richárd Weisz
Georgia Ann Robinson

July–September[edit]

Emperor Taishō
Joseph Wirth
Joseph Lyons
Emiliano Zapata

October–December[edit]

Max von Laue
Leon Trotsky
Paul Klee
Prudencia Grifell

Date unknown[edit]

  • Abdallah Beyhum, 10th prime minister of Lebanon (d. 1962)
  • Ali Muhammad Shibli, Bengali revolutionary (d. unknown)[21]

Deaths[edit]

January–June[edit]

Heinrich Geissler
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Sarah Hale

July–December[edit]

Miguel Grau
James Clerk Maxwell
Louisa McCord

Date unknown[edit]

References[edit]

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  23. ^ Hansen, Helynne Hollstein (1998). Hortense Allart: the woman and the novelist. Lanham, Md: University Press of America. p. 11. ISBN 076181213X.
  24. ^ Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205. ISBN 0-19-503186-5
  25. ^ Douer, Alisa (1998). Wien, Heldenplatz : Mythen und Massen 1848-1998. Wien: Mandelbaum. p. 25. ISBN 9783854760160.
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Further reading and year books[edit]

  • Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year 1879 online