Editing 1879 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April]] &ndash; Postman [[Ferdinand Cheval]] begins to build his ''Palais Idéal'' at Hauterives in France.
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[War of the Pacific]]: Chile formally declares war on Bolivia and Peru.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Pacific, War of the|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Wars|editor=Kohn, George C.|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2006|page=389}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Mary Baker Eddy]] founds the [[Church of Christ, Scientist]] in [[Boston]], Massachusetts.
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The National Park, later renamed the [[Royal National Park]], is declared in [[New South Wales]], Australia, the world's second-oldest purposed national park.
* [[May 2]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (''Partido Socialista Obrero Español'') is founded clandestinely at the ''Casa Labra'' [[tavern]] in [[Madrid]], by printer [[Pablo Iglesias Posse|Pablo Iglesias]].<ref>{{cite web|title=El Partido Socialista se fundó en 1879|url=http://www.psoe.es/ambito/historiapsoe/docs/index.do?action=View&id=992|publisher=PSOE|access-date=2013-02-08}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; The current [[constitution of the State of California]] in the United States is ratified.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The [[Archaeological Institute of America]] (AIA) is formed.
* [[May 12]] &ndash; English Catholic convert [[John Henry Newman]] is elevated to [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; The first group of 463 [[Indian indenture system|Indian indentured labourers]] arrive in [[Fiji]], aboard the ''[[Leonidas (ship)|Leonidas]]''.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; Russia and the United Kingdom sign the [[Treaty of Gandamak]], establishing an [[Afghan state]].
* [[May 30]] &ndash; New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed [[Madison Square Garden (1879)|Madison Square Garden]] by [[William Henry Vanderbilt]] and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]]: [[Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] of France, son of [[Napoléon III]], is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army.<ref name="Dodd, Mead & Co">{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilman |editor1-first=Daniel Coit |editor2-last=Peck |editor2-first=Harry Thurston |editor3-last=Colby |editor3-first=Frank Moore |title=The New International Encyclopaedia |date=1906 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |page=246 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTorAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=NAPOLEON, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Yasukuni Shrine]] is officially renamed from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in [[Japan]].<ref>[[:ja:靖国神社#歴史]] (Japanese language) Retrieved January 7, 2017.</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[William Denny and Brothers]] launch the world's first ocean-going steamer to be built of [[mild steel]], the [[Rotomahana (ship)|SS ''Rotomahana'']], on the [[River Clyde]] in Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=SS Rotomahana|work=Clydebuilt|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312163620/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-03-12|access-date=2014-04-14}}</ref> On [[October 2]] they launch the first [[Transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] steamer of the same material, the SS ''Buenos Ayrean''; on [[December 1]] she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow, bound for South America.<ref>{{cite web|title=S/S Buenos Ayrean, Allan Line|url=http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=bueay|work=Norway Heritage|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Sidney Faithorn Green]], a priest in the [[Church of England]], is tried and convicted for using [[Ritualism in the Church of England|Ritualist]] practices.
* [[June 21]] &ndash; German chemical company ''[[The Linde Group|Linde]]'' is founded by [[Carl von Linde]].
* [[June 30]] &ndash; The [[1879 Surigao earthquake]] measuring {{M|w}} 7.4 causes major damage in the northern tip of Mindanao Island.<ref name="Perez & Tsutsumi">{{cite journal |author1=Jeffrey S. Perez |author2=Hiroyuki Tsutsumi |title=Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Surigao segment of the Philippine fault in northeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines |journal=[[Tectonophysics (journal)|Tectonophysics]] |date=2017 |volume=699 |pages=244–257 |doi=10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.001 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195117300471|publisher=[[Elsevier]]|bibcode=2017Tectp.699..244P }}</ref>