1879
year
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.
| 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 |
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)