Events
Births
Deaths
- February 11 – Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
- February 23 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
- 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)
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October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests his first practical electric light bulb
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See also
In Spanish: 1879 para niños
National Hispanic Heritage Month on Kiddle
Influential Hispanic activists
1879 Facts for Kids.
Kiddle Encyclopedia.