1879
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1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) is the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade.
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Art and culture
- Ferdinand Cheval starts building the Palais idéal
- Wilhelm Wundt founds the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig
- The Pearl, magazine, founded
- Pornocrates, a drawing by Félicien Rops
- Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
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Births
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Deaths
- February 10 - Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
- August 18 – Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian bibliophile (b. 1802)
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