1879 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1879?
- January 22, 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
- January 25, 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- February 8, 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
- 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 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 21, 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
- June 1, 1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 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.
- 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 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 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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