Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1879. 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born...

The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741 and 1845–1852, the 1879 famine (sometimes called...

The Siemens locomotive of 1879 was the first electric passenger train and the first electric locomotive powered by a generator. It was first presented...

Anglo-Zulu War was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July 1879 between forces of the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Two famous battles...

Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his...

The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. British children's writer and amateur astronomer Agnes Giberne...

The 1879–80 Football Association Challenge Cup was the ninth staging of the FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. Fifty-four teams entered, eleven...

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1879. Major excavation at Babylon, conducted by Hormuzd Rassam on behalf of the British Museum...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879. January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop...

James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of...

legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1878 and 1879, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative...

Academy by a 10–8 score. The 1879 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1879 college football season. The...

later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime, being...

The year 1879 in architecture involved some significant events. Autumn – Proposals to reconstruct the west front of St Mark's Basilica in Venice are criticised...

Simyen Tewodoros (also referred to as Alamayou; 23 April 1861 – 14 November 1879), was the son of Emperor Tewodros II and Empress Tiruwork Wube of Ethiopia...

Events in 1879 in animation. Specific date unknown: In 1879, Charles-Émile Reynaud registered a modification to the praxinoscope patent to include the...

Freedom) was a long-running anarchist journal established by Johann Most in 1879. It was known for advocacy of attentat, or propaganda of the deed—revolutionary...

This article is about music-related events in 1879. 1879 in Norwegian music January 1 – The Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms is premiered in Leipzig...

original text related to this article: Acts of Parliament, 1879 Events from the year 1879 in Canada. Monarch – Victoria Governor General – John Campbell...

The following are the baseball events of the year 1879 throughout the world. National League: Providence Grays National Association: Albany Blue Stockings...

Events from the year 1879 in art. April 10 – May 11 – Fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 28 avenue de l'Opéra...

railroad ran north-east to Euclid, parallel to Euclid Avenue. In August 1879 the Lake View and Collamer Railroad was sold at foreclosure sale and then...

Prime minister (1879) Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Prime minister (1879) Tewfik Pasha, Prime minister (1879) Riaz Pasha, Prime minister (1879–1881) Mohamed Sherif...

Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town c. 1879. The play concerns the fate of...

Events from the year 1879 in France. President: Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta (until 30 January) Jules Grévy (starting 30 January) President of...

of the British defeat at the day-long Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879. They travelled ten kilometres (six miles) to attack Rorke's Drift later...

between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was created by treaty on October 7, 1879, as part of Germany's Otto von Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent...

1879 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...

Madison Square Garden (1879–1890) was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first...