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24 apr 2021 · Timeline from 1870 to 1880. Getty Images. By. Robert McNamara. Updated on April 24, 2021. 1870. 1870: Thomas Nast, the star political cartoonist of Harper's Weekly, began a campaign of lampoon the corrupt "ring" that secretly ran New York City. Nast's biting depictions of the Tweed Ring helped bring down Boss Tweed. February 3, 1870: The 15th ...
The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy [ edit ] British children's writer and amateur astronomer Agnes Giberne publishes the popular illustrated book Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic in twenty years.
Events. 1 January – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell 's bookshop in Oxford. [1] 8 January – British army occupies Kandahar in Afghanistan. [2] 11 January – Anglo-Zulu War begins. 22 January – Zulu troops led by King Cetshwayo massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
Oct 27 John Wilkins Whitfield, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61. Oct 28 Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799) Oct 31 Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies. Oct 31 Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803) Oct 31 Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814) Sep 1879.
27 gen 2024 · 1878: G. Stanley Hall becomes the first American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. 1879: Wilhelm Wundt establishes the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany dedicated to the study of the mind. 1883: G. Stanley Hall opens the first experimental psychology lab in the U.S. at Johns Hopkins University.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, previously a Union soldier, as well as a representative and governor of Ohio, is publicly sworn in as the nineteenth President of the United States. He takes the oath privately on March 3rd. In the race against Democrat Samuel Tilden, Hayes secures only 48 percent of the popular vote and 164 electoral votes to ...
21 giu 2023 · The birth of Albert Einstein: One of the most famous scientists in history, Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14th, 1879. In conclusion, though it may seem like a distant year in the past, many significant events took place during the year of 1879 which shaped American history as we know it today.
