1879

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.

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)
4575 or 4515
     to 
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4576 or 4516
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

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April Postman Ferdinand Cheval begins to build his Palais Idéal at Hauterives in France.
  • April 5 War of the Pacific: Chile formally declares war on Bolivia and Peru.[2]
  • April 12 Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • April 26 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 The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) is founded clandestinely at the Casa Labra tavern in Madrid, by printer Pablo Iglesias.[3]
  • May 7 The current constitution of the State of California in the United States is ratified.
  • May 10 The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is formed.
  • May 12 English Catholic convert John Henry Newman is elevated to Cardinal.
  • May 14 The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji, aboard the Leonidas.
  • May 26 Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state.
  • May 30 New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
  • June 1 Anglo-Zulu War: Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France, son of Napoléon III, is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army.[4]
  • June 4 Yasukuni Shrine is officially renamed, from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in Japan.[5][6]
  • June 6 William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, on the River Clyde in Scotland.[7] On October 2 they launch the first 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.[8]
  • June 14 Sidney Faithorn Green, a priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.
  • June 21 German company Linde is founded by Carl von Linde.
  • June 30 The 1879 Surigao earthquake measuring Mw 7.4 causes major damage in the northern tip of Mindanao Island.[9]

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

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

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 beans to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea.
  • The city of Kotka was founded in Kymenlaakso, Finland by separating its two islands from the old Kymi parish.[17][18]
  • Gottlob Frege publishes Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens in Halle, a significant text in the development of mathematical logic.

Births

JanuaryMarch

Grace Coolidge

AprilJune

Ahmad Nami
Kartini
Richárd Weisz
Georgia Ann Robinson
  • April 1 Mary J. L. Black, Canadian librarian and suffragist (d. 1939)
  • April 9 Thomas Meighan, American actor (d. 1936)
  • April 11 Bernhard Schmidt, German-Estonian optician, inventor (d. 1935)
  • April 16 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 Kartini, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (d. 1904)
  • April 26 Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
  • April 29 Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
  • April 30 Richárd Weisz, Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (d. 1945)[19]
  • May 6 Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist, linguist (d. 1952)
  • May 11 Ahmad Nami, Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria (d. 1962)
  • May 12
  • May 16 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 Hans Meerwein, German chemist (d. 1965)
  • May 22 Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American stage, film actress (d. 1945)
  • May 25 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British statesman and newspaper publisher (d. 1964)
  • May 27 Lucile Watson, Canadian-born American film, stage actress (d. 1962)
  • May 28 Milutin Milanković, Serbian scientist (d. 1958)
  • June 3 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
  • June 4 Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator (d. 1964)
  • June 7 Knud Rasmussen, Danish polar explorer, anthropologist (d. 1933)
  • June 10 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 Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist (d. 1947)

JulySeptember

Joseph Wirth

OctoberDecember

Prudencia Grifell

Date unknown

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

Deaths

JanuaryJune

Heinrich Geissler
Sarah Hale
Epameinondas Deligeorgis and Henry Sewell died on May 14, 1879

JulyDecember

Louisa McCord

Date unknown

  • Chō Kōran, Japanese poet, painter (b. 1804)

References

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Further reading and year books

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