Battle of Isandlwana
1879 · Event
Zulu impi annihilates a British force in southern Africa; biggest defeat of British arms by a non-industrial army in the 19th century.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1879
- German unification (1871)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)