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 – 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 )

* 1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

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.

* 1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist ( d. 1947 )

His siblings were August ( 1872 – 1952 ), Johannes ( 1873 – 1937 ), Lilli ( 1879 – 1950 ) and Elisabeth, who died shortly after birth in c. 1880.

" Der Priester Johannes ", Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Koeniglichen Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig, 1879, Bd. VII, H. 8, S. 826 – 1028 ; 1883, Bd. VIII, H. I, S. 1 – 183, re-published by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 1980, ISBN 978-3-487-07013-1.

* Hanna Maria Sophie Gobat ( 1838 – 1922 ), married in 1859 Reverend Johannes Zeller ( 1830 – 1902 ), since 1879 leader of the Gobat School in Jerusalem,

They had eight children: Marie ( 1872 – 1947 ) married C. V. Prytz, Jens Warming ( 1873 – 1939 ), who became a professor in economy and statistics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, Fro ( 1875 – 1880 ), Povl ( 1877 – 1878 ), Svend Warming ( 1879 – 1982 ), engineer at Burmeister & Wain shipyard, Inge ( 1879 – 1893 ), Johannes ( 1882 – 1970 ), farmer, and Louise ( 1884 – 1964 ).

79, for piano were written by Johannes Brahms in 1879 during his summer stay in Pörtschach, when he had reached the maturity of his career.

* E. Kautsch, Johannes Buxtorf der Ältere ( 1879 ).

In 1879 the same Clark Wait, with H. H. Holley of South Dorset, formed the `` American Telegraph Line '', extending from Manchester Depot via Factory Point and South Dorset to Dorset.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

In 1879 the Zulu Kingdom was invaded by Britain in a quest to control all of South Africa.

* The South African Military History Society-The Zulu Military Organization and the Challenge of 1879

* May 1 – George Fife Angas, Founder of South Australia ( d. 1879 )

* Australia's first telephone service ( connecting the Melbourne and South Melbourne offices of Robinson Brothers ) was launched in 1879.

Australia's first national park-and the second in the world-is Royal National Park in New South Wales, established in 1879.

Category: 1879 in South Africa

The county is named after Alfred Brown, of Hutchinson County, South Dakota, a Dakota Territory legislator in 1879.

Founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879, it is the world's second oldest purposed national park ( after Yellowstone in the United States ), and the first to use the term " national park ".

It was proclaimed in 1891 and was the first National Park in South Australia, second in Australia ( after Sydney's Royal National Park which was proclaimed in 1879 ) and the tenth in the world.

In 1879, the Southern Pacific Railroad was in the process of building a railroad line from Yuma to Tucson, and a second railroad line was to be built from Maricopaville, wrapping around the western edge of South Mountain into Phoenix.

Barton first became an MP in 1879, in the Parliament of New South Wales.

In 1879, Barton umpired a cricket game at Sydney Cricket Ground between New South Wales and an English touring side captained by Lord Harris.

* Edmund Alfred ( 29 May 1879 – 13 November 1949 ), a New South Wales judge

Category: 1879 in South Africa

* Natal Native Contingent, a large force of black auxiliary soldiers in British South Africa during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War

The fifth book in the series, By the Shores of Silver Lake is based on Laura's late childhood spent near De Smet, South Dakota, beginning in 1879.

Charles filed for a homestead over the winter of 1879 – 1880 ; De Smet, South Dakota was home for the rest of his, Caroline, and Mary's lives.

Tillman was the younger brother of George Dionysius Tillman ( 1826 – 1902 ), a U. S. Representative from South Carolina, serving from 1879 to 1893 ( with one interruption ).

On his return to Cape Town, Frere found that his achievement had been eclipsed — first by 1 June 1879 death of Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial in Zululand, and then by the news that the government of the Transvaal and Natal, together with the high commissionership in the eastern part of South Africa, had been transferred from him to Sir Garnet Wolseley.

* South Melbourne Town Hall ( 1879 – 80 ), Melbourne, Australia, Charles Webb, architect.