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| 1879 |
| | | Mary Baker Eddy and others found the first Church of Christ, Scientist, in Lynn, Massachusetts | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Cetshwayo is captured by the British and is exiled to 'Cape Town | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Thomas Edison develops a long-lasting carbon filament light bulb (traditionally 40 hours) and is able to light his Menlo Park laboratory with 30 bulbs | |
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| 1879 |
| | | An entire train, full of passengers, falls into the river Tay in Scotland when a bridge collapses in a winter gale | |
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| 1879 |
| | | Henry James's story Daisy Miller, about an American girl abroad, brings him a new readership | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Buenos Aires is finally accepted as the permanent capital city of Argentina | |
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| 1880 |
| | | For the second time Gladstone replaces Disraeli as Britain's prime minister, following a Liberal election victory over the Conservatives | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Gustave Flaubert dies, with his novel Bouvard et Pécuchet incomplete | |
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| 1880 |
| | | French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza forestalls Stanley in opening up the Congo, reaching Stanley Pool ahead of him | |
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