1879 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1879?
- January 11, 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 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 – 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 22, 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- 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 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.
- May 26, 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- 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.
- June 1, 1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 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.
- October 7, 1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
- December 31, 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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