1879
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 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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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).[3]
- 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.[4]
- 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.
References
- ↑ Kohn, George C., ed. (2006). "Pacific, War of the". Dictionary of Wars. Infobase Publishing. p. 389.
- ↑ http://www.psoe.es/ambito/historiapsoe/docs/index.do?action=View&id=992
- ↑ Usher, Abbott Payson (1954). A History of Mechanical Inventions. Courier Dover Publications. p. 402.
- ↑ Schwarzlose, Richard A. (1990). The Nation's Newsbrokers: The Rush to Institution: From 1865 to 1920. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 84.