Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route  

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route  

Sep 29   Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 29   NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players in the year 1879.  

Sep 30   Ernst Isler, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 01   In the year 1879 cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause  

Oct 02   In the year 1879 start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)  

Oct 02   Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG) on this day in history.  

Oct 02   In the year 1879 wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)  

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer  

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant in the year 1879.  

Oct 07   Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr in the year 1879.  

Oct 08   War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter on this day in history.  

Oct 12   On this day in history british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan  

Oct 13   On this day in history peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)  

Oct 14   On this day in history f Kornberger, writer, dies at 58  

Oct 15   On this day in history jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)  

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 19   Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign in the year 1879.  

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer in the year 1879.  

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light on this day in history.  

Oct 21   Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb in the year 1879.  

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 26   In the year 1879 leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]  

Oct 26   The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader on this day in history.  

Oct 28   On this day in history conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer  

Oct 29   On this day in history franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)  

Oct 30   Eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion) in the year 1879.  

Oct 31   Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies in the year 1879.  

Nov 01   On this day in history pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)  

Nov 02   In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km in the year 1879.  

Nov 02   On this day in history jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)  

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist in the year 1879.  

Nov 04   In the year 1879 elkins patents refrigerating apparatus  

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Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)  

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory)  

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)  

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of william Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)  

Jan 02   In the year 1879 birth of johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)  

Jan 03   In the year 1879 birth of grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)  

Jan 05   In the year 1879 birth of hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)  

Jan 09   Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

Jan 13   WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58 in the year 1879.  

Jan 16   Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) died in the year 1879.  

Jan 22   In the year 1879 anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle  

Jan 23   Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 in the year 1879.  

Jan 29   In the year 1879 antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80  

Feb 11   Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies in the year 1879.  

Feb 21   On this day in history peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69