Important Historical Events of the year 1879, Year 1879 in History

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What happened in the year 1879?

Date	Event
January 11, 1879	The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
January 22, 1879	The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
January 22, 1879	The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15 km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
January 23, 1879	Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
January 25, 1879	The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
February 8, 1879	Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
February 8, 1879	The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
February 14, 1879	The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
February 15, 1879	Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 22, 1879	In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
March 11, 1879	Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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.
March 29, 1879	Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
April 5, 1879	Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
April 23, 1879	Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
May 14, 1879	The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
May 21, 1879	War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
May 26, 1879	Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
May 31, 1879	Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
June 1, 1879	Napoléon Eugène, 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 4, 1879	Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
July 8, 1879	Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
August 21, 1879	The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named “Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site.
August 28, 1879	Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
September 3, 1879	Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
September 18, 1879	The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
October 7, 1879	Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
October 8, 1879	War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
October 21, 1879	Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
October 22, 1879	Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 13.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;o
December 21, 1879	World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
December 28, 1879	Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
December 31, 1879	Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.