1879

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( 1870s: )     1879
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

• 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.
• January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• March 11 – The Ryukyu Domain is incorporated into the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, and the last ruler, Shō Tai, is exiled to Tokyo.
• April 5 – War of the Pacific: Chile formally declares war on Bolivia and Peru.
• May 2 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) is founded clandestinely at the Casa Labra tavern in Madrid, by printer Pablo Iglesias.
• May 14 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji.
• May 26 – The Afghan Emir, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state.
• June 4 – Yasukuni Shrine is officially renamed, from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in Japan.
• July 4 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Ulundi: A British victory effectively ends the war.
• October 7 – The Dual Alliance is formed by Germany and Austria-Hungary.
• November 4 – 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).
• November 10 – 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.
• December 21 – 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).
• December 31 - Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

Date unknown

• Colonel Ahmed ‘Urabi forms the Egyptian Nationalist Party.
• Wilhelm Wundt establishes the first psychological research laboratory, at the University of Leipzig.
• Tetteh Quarshie first brings cocoa beans to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Technical University of Berlin		Public	One of the 4 Universities in Berlin, home to a few former top Nazi-officials.
Sullivan & Cromwell			Notorious New York law firm used by the Dulles brothers.
PSOE

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Lionel de Rothschild	22 November 1808	3 June 1879	London UK	Politician Rothschild family

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Alexander Halpern	1879		28 June 1956	Spook Politician Lawyer
E. M. Forster	1 January 1879	United Kingdom Marylebone Middlesex	7 June 1970	Author
Alfred Zimmern	26 January 1879		24 November 1957	Academic Deep state operative	A member of the Milner Group who spoke of the group to Carrol Quigley
William Beveridge	5 March 1879	India Bengal	16 March 1963	Academic Economist Social Scientist	Economist who helped shape welfare state policies and institutions in post-World War II Britain .
Carlo Tresca	9 March 1879	Italy Sulmona	11 January 1943	Editor	Communist editor assassinated in New York in 1943
Albert Einstein	14 March 1879		18 April 1955	Scientist	Theoretical physicist best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2
Thomas Catto	15 March 1879	United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne	23 August 1959	Central banker Businessperson	Governor of the Bank of England 1944-1949
John Raskob	19 March 1879	New York United States Lockport	15 October 1950	Businessperson
Fred Brown	12 April 1879	New Hampshire Ossipee	3 February 1955		US politician
Nancy Astor	19 May 1879	US	2 May 1964	Politician	The first woman to take her seat in Parliament, a key member of the Cliveden Set
Waldorf Astor	19 May 1879	US	30 September 1952	Politician Deep politician Businessperson Millionaire	Multi-millionaire UK deep politician, Chair of Chatham House ...
Max Aitken	25 May 1879	Canada Ontario Maple	9 June 1964	Author Legislator Businessperson
Auckland Geddes	21 June 1879	London United Kingdom	8 June 1954	Diplomat Soldier Politician Businessperson
Robert William Seton-Watson	20 August 1879	London	25 July 1951	Journalist Propagandist	Spooky UK historian trained by Milner Group member H. A. L. Fisher, encouraged the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
David Petrie	9 September 1879	Inveravon Banffshire	7 August 1961	Spook Police officer	Wartime head of MI6 after just 5 years in the organisation.
Charles Wickham	11 September 1879		20 July 1971	Soldier Police officer	British counter-insurgency expert organizing murder gangs and torture chambers in Northern Ireland, Greece and around the Empire.
Margaret Sanger	14 September 1879		6 September 1966	Activist Nurse	US eugenicist and birth control promoter. Long sponsored by the Rockefeller family.
Leon Trotsky	7 November 1879	Near Yelizavetgrad Kherson Governorate Russia/Tsarist Russia	21 August 1940
Patrick Pearce	10 November 1879	Dublin Eire	3 May 1916	Activist 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 Inglis	24 November 1879		1924	Academic	American early 20th century author and educator. His scholarship largely shaped modern public schools and continues to be influential. Criticized by John Taylor Gatto.
John McCarl	27 November 1879	United States Near Iowa Des Moines	2 August 1940	Civil servant	Although 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 Shouse	10 December 1879	US Kentucky	2 June 1968	Politician Lawyer Publisher Deep state actor

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