Events in the year 1879 in

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

Incumbents

*Monarch: Alfonso XII *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (8 February 18288 August 1897) was a Spanish politician and historian known principally for serving six terms as Prime Minister and his overarching role as "architect" of the regime that ensued with the 1874 restor ...

Events

*April 20 -

Spanish general election, 1879 The 1879 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 20 April and on Saturday, 3 May 1879, to elect the 1st Cortes Generales#Restoration (1874–1930), Restoration Cortes of the Restoration (Spain), Kingdom of Spain. All 392 seats in the Congress ...

Births

*February 20 -

Pedro Muñoz Seca Pedro Muñoz Seca (20 February 1879 – 28 November 1936 ) was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both '' sainetes'' (short vignettes) and longer plays ...

*August 14 -

Marcelino Valentín Gamazo Marcelino Valentín Gamazo (1879–1936) was a Spanish lawyer, Secretary of the Bar Association of Madrid on three occasions, Dean of the lawyers of the State and the 64th Attorney General of Spain (Nov–Dec, 1935). He was born in Rubielos Altos o ...

*November 14 - Antonio Escobar Huertas

Deaths

* Juan de Zavala, 1st Marquis of Sierra Bullones

References

{{Year in Europe, 1879 1870s in Spain