* In 1879, Auguste Bartholdi was awarded design patent for the Statue of Liberty.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

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

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

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

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was able to arrange for houses to be rented for the family, the family later moved to the Mansion of Bahjí around 1879 when an epidemic caused the inhabitants to flee.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

The complete pre-Pius X Roman Breviary was translated into English ( by the marquess of Bute in 1879 ; new ed.

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.

The first Cuban labour organisation, the Cigar Makers Guild, was created in 1878, followed by the Central Board of Artisans in 1879, and many more across the island.

In France, a steady linking of all the river systems — Rhine, Rhône, Saône and Seine — and the North Sea was boosted in 1879 by the establishment of the Freycinet gauge, which specified the minimum size of locks so that canal traffic doubled in the first decades of the 20th century.

However, the holiday was not established statutorily until 1879, when it was designated as Dominion Day, in reference to the designation of the country as a Dominion in the British North America Act.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Mary Baker Eddy.

The church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 following a personal healing in 1866, which she claimed resulted from reading the Bible.

Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.

Cleveland was not among its charter members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries and the city gained an NL team.

A law was produced on April 22, 1879, ordering a census to be conducted every ten years.

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

Gibbs did receive the major honors then possible for an academic scientist in the US: he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1879 and was awarded the 1880 Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on chemical thermodynamics.

In 1879 there was no provision for the posthumous granting of the Victoria Cross, and so it could not be awarded to anyone who had died in performing an act of bravery.

Famous people to originate from Southgate include Leigh Hunt, the English essayist and writer, who was born here in 1784, and Frederick Hitch, one of the men awarded a Victoria Cross for the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

Queen Victoria travelled over it in late June 1879, and she awarded him a knighthood in recognition of his achievement.

He studied law at Caen, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in law in 1879 ; upon his graduation he moved to Paris.

He passed his exams in public law on 23 October 1879 and on 29 June 1880 he was awarded a PhD on a dissertation in Political Economics " Karakter en methode der staathuishoudkunde ".

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.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross in Moirosi's Mountain, Basuto War, 5 June 1879.

From 1872 to 1879, cum laude and summa cum laude were the two Latin honors awarded to graduates.

The University of New Brunswick awarded him a BCL in 1879 and would confer honorary degrees of DCL in 1884 and LL. D in 1918.

In 1879 he was awarded a gold medal by the Berlin Frederick William University for his dissertation on the 1177 Treaty of Venice and habilitated with a treatise on Arthur Schopenhauer.

Reverend James William Adams was 40 years old, and a chaplain in the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department ( serving as chaplain to the Kabul Field Force ), British Indian Army during the Second Afghan War when on 11 December 1879 he carried out the actions for which he was awarded the VC.

In 1863 he was awarded the royal gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects and in 1879 he retired from formal practice.

He was awarded the GCB in August 1879.

Lord Chelmsford left for England in July 1879, but Wolseley ensured in his despatches that Thesiger receive all the credit for Ulundi, and he was awarded the GCB in August.

He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1879 and was elected F. R. S.

He was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London, in 1879.

His chief work was A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca ( 1848 – 1856 ), published by the same society, for which he was awarded the Wollaston medal in 1860 by the Geological Society of London ; a supplement was issued by him in 1872-1874, a second in 1879, and a third ( edited by his son ) in 1882.

In recognition of his service, he was awarded a knighthood in 1879.

A grant was eventually awarded for the development of the torpedo, and in March 1879 it was successfully tested in Hobsons Bay, Melbourne.

William Wilson Allen, VC ( – 12 March 1890 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross ( VC ) for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in January 1879, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Adam Archibald VC ( 14 January 1879 – 10 March 1957 ) was a Scottish First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Major General Edward William Derrington Bell VC CB ( 18 May 1824 – 10 November 1879 ) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.