1879 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1876 1877 1878 – 1879 – 1880 1881 1882

Events

February 11 – Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
February 23 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
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)