1879
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January 22: Battle of Isandlwana
January 22–23: Battle of Rorke's Drift
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
- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
- Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address.
- The Anglo-Zulu War took place.
Births
- March 14 – Albert Einstein, German scientist (died 1955)
- August 8 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary
- August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (died 1959)
- November 7 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (died 1940)
- December 22 – Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (died 1958)
- Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer
- Simon Rodia, creator of the Watts Towers
Deaths
- January 26 - Julia Margaret Cameron, British Indian photographer (b. 1815)
- February 11 – Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
- February 23 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
- February 25 – Charles Peace, British criminal (executed) (b. 1832)
- March 1 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
- March 30 – Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
- April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American writer (b. 1788)
- June 1 – Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
- June 27 - Sir John Lawrence, British Indian administrator (b. 1811)
- August 30 – John Bell Hood, America Confederate general (b. 1831)
- November 5 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
- August 11 – George Willison Adams, Ohio abolitionist (b.1799)