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| 1879 |
| | | Zulu tribesmen surprise and annihilate a British army encamped near Isandhlwana | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Immediately after Isandhlwana a tiny British garrison at Rorke's Drift fights off an overwhelming Zulu attack | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin's poem, has its premiere in Moscow | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The young daughter of an amateur archaeologist discovers the first known example of prehistoric art, in a cave at Altamira in Spain | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The ancient Irish game of hurling is formalized by the newly founded Irish Hurling Union | |
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| 1879 |
| | | A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama | |
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| 1879 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs | |
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| 1879 |
| | | US author Joel Chandler Harris introduces Uncle Remus in a story in the Constitution | |
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| 1879 |
| | | George Goldie and British traders on the Niger form the United African Company (later the Royal Niger Company) to consolidate their interests | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The British destruction of Cetshwayo's kraal at Ulundi ends the Zulu War | |
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