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In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square ; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and Saint-Gaudens ' reputation was established.
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It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring.
Although he had received permission in 1876 to continue excavation, Schliemann did not reopen the dig site at Troy until 1878 – 1879, after another excavation in Ithaca designed to locate an actual site mentioned in the Odyssey.
Thomas Edison received US patent 180, 857 for " Autographic Printing " on August 8, 1876.
The opera received its premiere as part of the complete cycle on 13 August 1876, in the Bayreuther Festspielhaus.
It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring.
* In 1876, at the famous Centennial Exposition in the United States, Steinway received the two highest awards and a certificate of the judges showing a rating of 95. 5 of a possible 96.
The pundit ( explorer ) cartographer Nain Singh Rawat ( 19th century ) received a Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1876.
Around January 1876 Russell received a copy of Nelson Barbour's Herald of the Morning in the mail.
São Carlos had already received German nationals brought by the Count of Pinhal in 1876.
A stagecoach stop for many years, the community now known as Winslow first received a post office on December 11, 1876, known as Summit Home.
This name, by reason of its brevity and historic interest, received popular approval and was supposed to be a permanent fixture, but in 1882 when the railroads crossed eath other at a point four miles to the southwest of it, a fatality similar to that which happened in 1876 robbed the township of the county seat ruthlessly robbed the town of its pretty, romantic name and left it to be called by yet again another new name-Parvin.
But since the naming process was well documented, and Adrian received its title in 1876, while St. Adrian Church was not founded until 1877, most of the conflict eventually disappeared.
Zalma received its first post office in November 1876.
Other major works composed in these years were the E minor String Quartet, From My Life, a series of Czech dances for piano, several choral pieces and three more operas: The Kiss, The Secret and The Devil's Wall, all of which received their first performances between 1876 and 1882.
He received his Ph. D. at the University of Vienna in 1876, and completed his habilitation thesis at the same university in 1879.
His speech nominating James G. Blaine for the 1876 presidential election was unsuccessful, as Rutherford B. Hayes received the Republican nomination, but the speech itself, known as the " Plumed Knight " speech, was considered a model of political oratory.
In the New York tournament of 1876, Bird received the first brilliancy prize ever awarded, for his game against James Mason.
He received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy from Pope Pius IX in 1876, and of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Louvain in 1884.
Nares was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876, received the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1877 and was awarded the Gold medal from Société de Géographie in 1879.
The borough charter was received in 1876 and by 1889 this was raised to that of a county borough.
In 1876 he received the Légion d ' honneur, and was appointed a Grand Officer in 1899.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1872, and received the degree of Ph. D. at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1876.
He received his Masters of Arts Degree in 1876 and became attached to the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania in 1879.
Jose Manuel Salvador Vallejo ( 1813 – 1876 ), the General's younger brother, received his commission in the Mexican army in 1835, and was appointed Captain of militia at Sonoma in 1836.
After studying at five different universities ( including two in Europe ), he received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1876.
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The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.
In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).
* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
The club played its first games in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings and were founded professionally in 1876.
Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.
They were first observed in 1869 by German physicist Johann Hittorf, and were named in 1876 by Eugen Goldstein kathodenstrahlen, or cathode rays.
The first experiment to disprove this theory was done by Arthur Schuster in 1876, who observed that there was a force on the glass bulb of the Crookes radiometer that was in the opposite direction to the rotation of the vanes.
The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.
* The HMS Challenger expedition ( December 1872 – May 1876 ) first sounded the depths now known as the Challenger Deep.
It was with the 1876 edition that the currently used versification was first employed.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".
Charles S. Peirce also contributed the first English-language publication on an optimal design for regression-models in 1876.
The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.
Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).
Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.
Perhaps the first elaborate and systematic exposition was by John Venn, in The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability ( published editions in 1866, 1876, 1888 ).
He attended the Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and enrolled at the University of Turin in 1876, graduating in 1880 with high honours, after which the University employed him to assist first Enrico D ' Ovidio, and then Angelo Genocchi, the Chair of Infinitesimal calculus.
The constitution of 1876 adopted for the first time the name " España " (" Spain ") for the Spanish nation, and from then on monarchs used the title of " King of Spain ".
The first election under this new constitution – held in early 1876 – resulted in a republican victory, with 363 republicans elected as opposed to 180 monarchists.
This appeared in 1876, though it had been begun ( and a version of the first movement seen by some of his friends ) in the early 1860s.
Meiosis was discovered and described for the first time in sea urchin eggs in 1876 by the German biologist Oscar Hertwig.
Rakuten Kitazawa ( 1876 – 1955 ) first used the word " manga " in the modern sense.
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