1879
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 - 1879 - 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884
Events
- January 11 - Anglo-Zulu War begins
- January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at Isandhlwana[?]
- February 12 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink[?] in North America opens.
- February 15 - 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.
- February 22 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
- March 3 - The United States Geological Survey is created
- March 13 - Marriage of The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria, to Princess Louise of Prussia[?].
- March 29 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula[?]: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- May 26 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak[?] establishing an Afghan state[?].
- May 30 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Vanderbilt[?] and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- December 28 - The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
- December 30 - The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (Paignton, Devon, England)
- December 31 - Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time (Menlo Park, New Jersey[?].
- Hall effect discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall[?]
- Somerville College founded
- Stefan-Boltzmann law discovered by Jožef Stefan
- Dual Alliance formed by Germany and Austria-Hungary
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births
- January 3 - Grace Coolidge[?], First Lady
- January 13 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International
- January 28 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
- February 22 - J. N. Bronsted, physical chemist.
- March 8 - Otto Hahn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 (+ 1968)
- March 14 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (+ 1955)
- March 26 - Othmar Ammann, engineer, Verrazano Narrows Bridge[?] (+ 1965)
- March 30 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
- May 17 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (+ 1926)
- May 25 - Max Aitken, Statesman, newspaper baron (+ 1964)
- May 27 - Karl Bühler[?], psychologist (+ 1963)
- October 29 - Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary
- December 18 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
- December 21 - Joseph Stalin - Soviet leader
- December 28 - Billy Mitchell - military aviation pioneer
Deaths
- February 11 - Honore Daumier[?], caricaturist/painter.
- February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen[?], Dutch author.
- March 30 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher.
- June 1 - Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, only son of French Emperor Napoleon III, killed fighting the Zulus
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a ripe old age. If somewhat lacking in creative fervour and
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then, for a few years, been living in the north-country town of
story. It was first printed in the 1905 issue of the periodical
group of self-educated popular writers, some of whom had come into
the more remote country districts, who had read the latest
containing radical social satire. Guğmundur Friğjónsson, for
authors, however, we find rather a sort of native realism, where
particular literary tendency. Their works sprang out of the native
was often vivid. They convey true impressions of real life.
Of this kind are most of the works of Guğmundur Friğjónsson
best works of Jón Trausti (1873-1918). These, who had their debut as
two stories in our collection. Both were North-countrymen. The
culture, himself settled down as a farmer in his native locality in
attended a secondary school in the neighbourhood for a couple of
and was during the whole of his life anchored to his native region.
born on one of the northernmost farms in Iceland in a barren and
he had had to fend for himself as a farmhand and.
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