Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

However conservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, Aleksandar Stamboliyski ( 1879 – 1923 ).

* 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter ( b. 1793 )

* 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.

* 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer ( d. 1931 )

* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

* 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general ( d. 1919 )

* 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress ( d. 1959 )

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

* 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot ( d. 1959 )

* 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

* 1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist ( d. 1962 )

* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )

Andreas Aagesen ( 5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879 ) was a Danish jurist.

* 1879 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine ( d. 1904 )

* 1879 – Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian centenarian and circus performer ( d. 1984 )

* 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1879 )

* 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1879 )

* Bill Bachrach ( 1879 – 1959 ), American swim coach known as " Bach "

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

In the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 83 ), Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and won its current northern territory.

As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia ( 1879 – 1883 ), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.

Blaine's primary task was settling a complex international war between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru that started on April 5, 1879, known as the War of the Pacific.

* Museo del Litoral ( Museum of the Litoral Coastal Region ): Displays objects from the 1879 war in which Bolivia lost its sea coast to Chile.

Relations with Chile, strained since Bolivia's defeat in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 83 ) and its loss of the coastal province of Atacama, were severed from 1962 to 1975 in a dispute over the use of the waters of the Lauca River.

* James D. Porter, Jr. — Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909

South America ( 1879 ): Bolivia, Chile, and Peru held territorial disputes with their neighbors, except among each other.

" Moreover, historian William Skuban notes that although in 1879 Chile, Bolivia, and Peru were " ill-prepared " for war, both Peru and Bolivia were less prepared than Chile.

Acknowledging the alliance, Chile responded by breaking diplomatic ties and formally declaring war on both countries on April 5, 1879.

Despite the Bolivian tax crisis of 1879, Chile voted in a new Congress on schedule.

* War of the Pacific, fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru, from 1879 to 1884

The War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1883 ) between Chile and Peru disrupted Palma's life and resulted in the virtually complete destruction of his own library as well as that housed in the National Library of Peru.

The central cartouche has a border with ten stars in the bottom, which symbolize the nine Departamentos and the former province Litoral that was taken over by Chile in 1879, and the name of Bolivia in the top section.

Her daughter Mercedes became sick in Peru in 1879, but Gorriti could not go to her because of the war between Chile and Peru over the provinces of Tanca and Arica.

Borders between Peru, Bolivia and Chile after and before the 1879 War of the Pacific.

The Atacama border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia in the 19th century that ended in the transfer to Chile of all of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Bolivia's ally Peru through the Treaty of Ancón with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia after the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1883 ).

From the Chilean annexation of the Bolivian coast in 1879 the Puna de Atacama dispute arose due to Bolivian transfers of land to both Argentina and Chile, this spin-off dispute was settled in 1899.

Shortly after becoming aware of the alliance treaty between Peru and Bolivia, Chile declared war on both countries on April 1879.

The couple had five children: Carlos Eugenio ( born 1879, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ), Luisa Amelia ( 1881 ), Bayoan Lautaro ( 1885 ), Filipo Luis Duarte de Hostos ( born 1890, Chile ), María Angelina ( born 1892, Chile ).