What Happened In March 1879 In History

Historical Events for March, 1879

• 11th » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
• 23rd » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• 29th » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1879

• 3rd » József Klekl (writer) known as József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian journalist and priest (d. 1936)
• 3rd » George Wilkinson (water polo) e.g George Wilkinson, English water polo player (d. 1946)
• 4th » Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
• 4th » Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (d. 1951)
• 5th » William Beveridge, Indian-English economist (d. 1963)
• 5th » Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
• 7th » Jules De Bisschop, Belgian rower (d. 1955)
• 8th » Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 14th » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 20th » Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
• 25th » Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1920)
• 26th » Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American engineer, designed the George Washington Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (d. 1965)
• 26th » Waldemar Tietgens, German rower (d. 1917)
• 27th » Catherine Carswell, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1946)
• 27th » Sahan Dosova, Kazakhstani super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 27th » Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 27th » Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 27th » Izaak Reijnders, Dutch general (d. 1966)
• 27th » Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 28th » Terence MacSwiney, Irish author, playwright, and politician (d. 1920)
• 30th » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (d. 1954)

Famous Deaths for March 1879

• 1st » Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
• 13th » Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
• 27th » Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868–1879) named Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 30th » Thomas Couture, French painter and educator (b. 1815)

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