6 events found for 1879
Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the
The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas
War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessel
Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state
Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the publ
Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War