Page 3: Historical Events In 1879
Saturday, 21 February 2026
Feb 24 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun). 


Feb 25 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act 


Feb 25 Congress passed inaugural Timberland Protection Act. 


Feb 25 Otakar Ostrcil, composer 


Feb 26 Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten. 


Feb 27 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener) 


Feb 27 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer. 


Feb 27 Two American chemists announce the discovery of saccharin. 


Feb 28 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 


Mar 01 Library of Hawaii founded 


Mar 03 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood). 


Mar 03 The inaugural female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood). 


Mar 03 The United States Geological Survey was established. 


Mar 03 US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 


Mar 04 Bernhard Kellermann, writer. 


Mar 05 Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol) 


Mar 08 M Lichnowsky, writer. 


Mar 11 Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt 


Mar 11 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer. 


Mar 13 Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60. 


Mar 14 Albert Einstein, Austrian scientist is born 


Mar 14 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity) 


Mar 14 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany 


Mar 15 Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity) 


Mar 19 Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich) 


Mar 23 War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country 


Mar 25 Otakar Zich, composer 


Mar 27 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography 


Mar 27 Longest championship fight (136 rounds). 


Mar 29 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow. 


Mar 30 David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74. 


Apr 04 Gabriel Groulez, composer. 


Apr 05 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. 


Apr 08 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers 


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