1879 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1879 in the United Kingdom.

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11 January - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
22 January - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.^[1]
12 March - Anglo-Zulu War: At the Battle of Intombe, a British force over one-hundred strong is ambushed and destroyed by Zulu forces.
13 March - Marriage of The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria, to Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia.
28 March - Anglo-Zulu War: British forces suffer a defeat at the Battle of Hlobane.^[1]
29 March - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
3 April - Anglo-Zulu War: British forces successfully lift the two-month Siege of Eshowe.
26 May - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
14 June - Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.
4 July - The Anglo-Zulu War effectively ends at the Battle of Ulundi.
November–March 1880 - probably the longest ever fog in the city's history engulfs London.^[2]
15 December–23 December - Second Anglo-Afghan War: British victory at the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment.
28 December - The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
30 December - The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon.

^ ^a ^b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ The London Encyclopaedia, Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, Macmillan, 1995, ISBN 0-333-57688-8