1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1876 1877 1878 – 1879 – 1880 1881 1882 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1879 MDCCCLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2632 |
| Armenian calendar | 1328 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6629 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 35–36 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1800–1801 |
| Bengali calendar | 1286 |
| Berber calendar | 2829 |
| British Regnal year | 42 Vict. 1 – 43 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2423 |
| Burmese calendar | 1241 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7387–7388 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4575 or 4515 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4576 or 4516 |
| Coptic calendar | 1595–1596 |
| Discordian calendar | 3045 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1871–1872 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5639–5640 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1935–1936 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1800–1801 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4979–4980 |
| Holocene calendar | 11879 |
| Igbo calendar | 879–880 |
| Iranian calendar | 1257–1258 |
| Islamic calendar | 1296–1297 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 12 (明治１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1807–1808 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4212 |
| Minguo calendar | 33 before ROC 民前33年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 411 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2421–2422 |
| 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 |
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Events
change- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
- Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address.
Births
change- 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
change- 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)