1879

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

1879 in other calendars

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	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 2005 or 1624 or 852     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 2006 or 1625 or 853

Events

• Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
• Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address.
• The Anglo-Zulu War took place.

Births

• 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

• 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)