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* [[January 1]] – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The [[United States Note]] is valued the same as [[gold]], for the first time since the [[American Civil War]].
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* [[January 11]] – The [[Anglo-Zulu War]] begins.
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* [[March 11]] – The [[Ryukyu Domain]] is incorporated into the [[Okinawa Prefecture]] of [[Japan]], and the last ruler, [[Shō Tai]], is exiled to Tokyo.
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* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[War of the Pacific]]: Chile formally declares war on Bolivia and Peru.<ref>Kohn, George C., ed. (2006). "Pacific, War of the". Dictionary of Wars. Infobase Publishing. p. 389.</ref>
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* [[May 2]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (''Partido Socialista Obrero Español'') is founded clandestinely at the ''Casa Labra'' [[tavern]] in [[Madrid]], by printer [[Pablo Iglesias Posse|Pablo Iglesias]].<ref>http://www.psoe.es/ambito/historiapsoe/docs/index.do?action=View&id=992</ref>
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* [[May 14]] &ndash; The first group of 463 [[Indian indenture system|Indian indentured labourers]] arrive in [[Fiji]].
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* [[May 26]] &ndash; The Afghan Emir, [[Mohammad Yaqub Khan]], and the [[United Kingdom]] sign the [[Treaty of Gandamak]], establishing an [[Afghan state]].
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* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Yasukuni Shrine]] is officially renamed, from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in [[Japan]].
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* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ulundi]]: A British victory effectively ends the war.
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* [[October 7]] &ndash; The [[Dual Alliance (1879)|Dual Alliance]] is formed by [[German Empire|Germany]] and [[Austria-Hungary]].
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* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] applies for the patent for his invention, the [[incandescent light bulb]] (U.S. Patent 223,898 will be granted on [[January 27]], [[1880]]).<ref>Usher, Abbott Payson (1954). A History of Mechanical Inventions. Courier Dover Publications. p. 402.</ref>
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* [[November 10]] &ndash; The [[Bell Telephone Company]] and [[Western Union]] reach an agreement in the United States, in which the former agrees to stay out of telegraphy, and the latter to keep out of the telephone business.<ref>Schwarzlose, Richard A. (1990). The Nation's Newsbrokers: The Rush to Institution: From 1865 to 1920. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 84.</ref>
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* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s controversial drama ''[[A Doll's House]]'' premières at the [[Royal Danish Theatre]] in [[Copenhagen]] (having been first published on [[December 4]] in the city).
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* [[December 31]] - [[Thomas Edison]] demonstrates [[incandescent lighting]] to the public for the first time, in [[Menlo Park, New Jersey]].
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* Colonel [[Ahmed ‘Urabi]] forms the [[Egyptian Nationalist Party]].
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* [[Wilhelm Wundt]] establishes the first psychological research laboratory, at the [[University of Leipzig]].
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* Tetteh Quarshie first brings [[cocoa bean]]s to [[Ghana]] from [[Equatorial Guinea]].
 
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Latest revision as of 07:04, 13 March 2021

1869 < 1870 < 1871 < 1872 < 1873 < 1874 < 1875 <1876 < 1877 < 1878 < 1879 > 1880 > 1881 > 1882 > 1883 > 1884 > 1885 > 1886 > 1887 > 1888 > 1889

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Mohammad Yaqub Khan with British officers in May of 1879.jpg
Great Britain gives up on conquering all of Afghanistan, and settles for larger territorial concessions and control of Afghan foreign policy, after the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Events

Date unknown

 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
Technical University of BerlinYU Berlin.pngPublicOne of the 4 Universities in Berlin, home to a few former top Nazi-officials.
Sullivan & CromwellSullivan and Cromwell Logo 1.svgNotorious New York law firm used by the Dulles brothers.
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A Death

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummary
Lionel de Rothschild22 November 18083 June 1879London
UK
Politician
Rothschild family

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Alexander Halpern187928 June 1956Spook
Politician
Lawyer
E. M. Forster1 January 1879United Kingdom
Marylebone
Middlesex
7 June 1970Author
Alfred Zimmern26 January 187924 November 1957Academic
Deep state operative
A member of the Milner Group who spoke of the group to Carrol Quigley
William Beveridge5 March 1879India
Bengal
16 March 1963Academic
Economist
Social Scientist
Economist who helped shape welfare state policies and institutions in post-World War II Britain .
Carlo Tresca9 March 1879Italy
Sulmona
11 January 1943EditorCommunist editor assassinated in New York in 1943
Albert Einstein14 March 187918 April 1955ScientistTheoretical physicist best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2
Thomas Catto15 March 1879United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne
23 August 1959Central banker
Businessperson
Governor of the Bank of England 1944-1949
John Raskob19 March 1879New York
United States
Lockport
15 October 1950Businessperson
Fred Brown12 April 1879New Hampshire
Ossipee
3 February 1955US politician
Nancy Astor19 May 1879US2 May 1964PoliticianThe first woman to take her seat in Parliament, a key member of the Cliveden Set
Waldorf Astor19 May 1879US30 September 1952Politician
Deep politician
Businessperson
Millionaire
Multi-millionaire UK deep politician, Chair of Chatham House ...
Max Aitken25 May 1879Canada
Ontario
Maple
9 June 1964Author
Legislator
Businessperson
Auckland Geddes21 June 1879London
United Kingdom
8 June 1954Diplomat
Soldier
Politician
Businessperson
Robert William Seton-Watson20 August 1879London25 July 1951Journalist
Propagandist
Spooky UK historian trained by Milner Group member H. A. L. Fisher, encouraged the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
David Petrie9 September 1879Inveravon
Banffshire
7 August 1961Spook
Police officer
Wartime head of MI6 after just 5 years in the organisation.
Charles Wickham11 September 187920 July 1971Soldier
Police officer
British counter-insurgency expert organizing murder gangs and torture chambers in Northern Ireland, Greece and around the Empire.
Margaret Sanger14 September 18796 September 1966Activist
Nurse
US eugenicist and birth control promoter. Long sponsored by the Rockefeller family.
Leon Trotsky7 November 1879Near
Yelizavetgrad
Kherson Governorate
Russia/Tsarist Russia
21 August 1940
Patrick Pearce10 November 1879Dublin
Eire
3 May 1916Activist
Lawyer
One of the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion.
Alexander Inglis24 November 18791924AcademicAmerican early 20th century author and educator. His scholarship largely shaped modern public schools and continues to be influential. Criticized by John Taylor Gatto.
John McCarl27 November 1879United States
Near
Iowa
Des Moines
2 August 1940Civil servantAlthough McCarl had no financial training or experience whatsoever, he was appointed the first Comptroller General of the United States, working from 1921 to 1936
Jouett Shouse10 December 1879US
Kentucky
2 June 1968Politician
Lawyer
Publisher
Deep state actor
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References

  1. Kohn, George C., ed. (2006). "Pacific, War of the". Dictionary of Wars. Infobase Publishing. p. 389.
  2. http://www.psoe.es/ambito/historiapsoe/docs/index.do?action=View&id=992
  3. Usher, Abbott Payson (1954). A History of Mechanical Inventions. Courier Dover Publications. p. 402.
  4. Schwarzlose, Richard A. (1990). The Nation's Newsbrokers: The Rush to Institution: From 1865 to 1920. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 84.