Editing 1879 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]]
** An [[1879 Gansu earthquake|8.0 earthquake]] shakes southern [[Gansu]], killing 22,000 people.
** American [[Christian Restorationism|Christian Restorationist]] [[Charles Taze Russell]] publishes the first issue of the monthly ''Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence'' which, as ''[[The Watchtower]]'', will become the [[List of magazines by circulation|most widely circulated magazine]] in the world.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ulundi]]: A British victory effectively ends the war.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[July 8]] &ndash; Led by [[George W. De Long]], the ill-fated United States [[Jeannette Expedition|''Jeannette'' Expedition]] departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the [[North Pole]], by pioneering a route through the [[Bering Strait]].
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The city of [[Kotka]] is founded in [[Kymenlaakso]], [[Finland]], by separating its two islands from the [[Kymi, Finland|old Kymi parish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heraldik.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HT.1961.1.03.s119.pdf|title=Tre finländska stadsvapens historia|publisher=Heraldisk tidskrift|author=Bo Tennberg|language=Swedish|page=120|date=1961|accessdate=10 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Tokio Marine]] (insurer) is founded in Japan, as Tokio Marine Holdings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Group History |url=https://www.tokiomarinehd.com/en/company/history/ |website=Tokio Marine Holdings|date=1879 }}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Fulham F.C.]] is founded in London as a church soccer team.
* [[August 21]] &ndash; Claimed apparition to local people at [[Knock Shrine|Knock, County Mayo, Ireland]], of the [[Marian apparition|Blessed Virgin Mary]], [[Saint Joseph]], [[Saint John the Evangelist]] and [[Jesus Christ]] (as the [[Lamb of God]]).
* [[September]] &ndash; [[Henry George]] self-publishes his major work ''[[Progress and Poverty]]''.<ref>Commercially published in [[1880]] by [[D. Appleton & Company]], New York.</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; A fire in [[The Octagon, Dunedin]] (New Zealand), claims 12 victims.
* [[September 19]] &ndash; The [[Blackpool Illuminations]] in England are switched on for the first time.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; The [[Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society]] is founded.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://life.hotnews.ro/stiri-prin_oras-23377159-moment-aniversar-referinta-societatea-cultura-macedo-romana-implineste-140-ani-infiintare-baneadza-armanamea.htm|title=Moment aniversar de referință: Societatea de Cultură Macedo-Română împlinește 140 de ani de la înființare. S-bâneadzâ Armânamea!|first=Ionuț|last=Băiaș|newspaper=[[HotNews]]|date=20 September 2019|language=ro}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; A fire in [[Deadwood, South Dakota]], leaves 2,000 people homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3&nbsp;million.
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Marr]] founds the ''[[:de:Antisemitenliga|Antisemitenliga]]'' (League of Antisemites),<ref>{{cite book|title=Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism|last=Zimmermann|first=Moshe|location=New York; Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=71}}</ref> the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Meeker Massacre]]: [[Nathan Meeker]] and others are killed in an uprising at the [[White River (Green River)|White River]] Ute [[Indian reservation]] in [[Colorado]].