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1879 Calendar

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•  January 11, 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
•  February 8, 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
•  February 14, 1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
•  February 15, 1879 – 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.
•  March 23, 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
•  June 1, 1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
•  July 1, 1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
•  July 8, 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
•  October 7, 1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
•  December 21, 1879 – World première of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.

•  January 5, 1879 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
•  January 22, 1879 – Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
•  April 20, 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
•  May 23, 1879 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
•  May 24, 1879 – H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co. (d. 1956)
•  May 25, 1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British publisher (d. 1964)
•  May 27, 1879 – Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
•  June 4, 1879 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children’s author and illustrator (d. 1964)
•  November 10, 1879 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)