Bearsden Bowling Club was first formed in 1879. What else was happening in the world at that time?
Politics
 | the Anglo-Zulu War began in South Africa |
| The first Afghan State was created by a treaty between United Kingdom and Russia |
The Arts
| E.M.Forster (author of A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India) was born |
| "Eugene Onegin" completed by Tchaikowsky |
| "Pirates of Penzance" first performance in New York |
Science
| Thomas Edison tests his first electric lamp (it lasts for 13 hours) |
| Albert Einstein is born |
| James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish physicist genius on whose work Einstein based much of his) died. |
Other News
| 'Doc' Holliday kills his first victim in New Mexico |
| Tay Rail Bridge collapses with 75 killed. |
