What Happened In April 1879 In History

Historical Events for April, 1879

• 5th » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1879

• 1st » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (d. 1967)
• 4th » Gustav Goßler, German rower (d. 1940)
• 10th » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)
• 10th » Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower (d. 1921)
• 11th » Bernhard Schmidt, German optician (d. 1935)
• 13th » Edward Bruce (New Deal) e.g Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (d. 1943)
• 15th » Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
• 18th » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)
• 20th » Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (d. 1944)
• 21st » Kartini, Indonesian activist (d. 1904)
• 22nd » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)
• 24th » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American centenarian (d. 1984)
• 26th » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 29th » Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)

Famous Deaths for April 1879

• 4th » Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
• 16th » Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)
• 30th » Emma Smith, American wife of Joseph Smith (b. 1804)

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