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5 avril, guerre du Pacifique : le Chili déclare la guerre au Pérou. 25 avril : Sir William Wilfred Sullivan devient premier ministre de l'Ile-du-Prince-Édouard, remplaçant Sir Louis Henry Davies .
Historical events in April 1879. Learn about 6 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in Apr 1879 or search by date or keyword.
April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 257 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. [1]
Honoré Daumier (born February 20/26, 1808, Marseille, France—died February 11, 1879, Valmondois, France) was a prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.
- Jean Adhémar
April 12 – Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. April 26 – The National Park, later renamed the Royal National Park, is declared in New South Wales, Australia, the world's second-oldest purposed national park.
2 days ago · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
