What is 1879?
{{Year nav|1879}} {{Year in various calendars|1879}} {{Year article header|1879}} == Events == * [[Thomas Edison]] invents the [[light bulb]]. * [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] State of the Union Address. == Births == * [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Albert Einstein]], German scientist (died [[1955]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Emiliano Zapata]], Mexican revolutionary * [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Ethel Barrymore]], American actress (died [[1959]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Leon Trotsky]], [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[revolution]]ary and [[Marxism|Marxist]] (died [[1940]]) * [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Sydney Greenstreet]], British actor (died [[1958]]) * [[Samuel Goldwyn]], movie producer * [[Simon Rodia]], creator of the [[Watts Towers]] == Deaths == * [[January 26]] - [[Julia Margaret Cameron]], [[British India]]n photographer (b. [[1815]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Honoré Daumier]], French caricaturist and painter (b. [[1808]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Albrecht Graf von Roon]], [[Prime Minister of Prussia]] (b. [[1803]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Charles Peace]], British criminal (executed) (b. [[1832]]) * [[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]]) [[Category:1879| ]]