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.

#* Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat ( 16 May 1803 – 10 April 1878 ), married Caroline Georgina Fraser ( 1810 – 1879 ).

* 1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

* 1879 – Charles Bryant, British actor and film director ( d. 1948 )

The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.

* December 3 – Charles P. Snyder, American admiral ( b. 1879 )

* May 14 – Charles Peace, British criminal ( d. 1879 )

* Félix Charles Douay, French General ( d. 1879 )

In the early 1870s, Charles Flower gave several acres of riverside land to the local council on the understanding that a permanent theatre be built in honour of Shakespeare's memory, and by 1879 the first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre had been completed.

# Maria Teresa Fernanda Felicitas Gaetana Pia of Savoy ( 1803 – 1879 ), married Charles II, Duke of Parma ( 1799 – 1883 )

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Charles Dickens, Jr ( eldest child of Charles Dickens ), in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London, described the Pavilion this way: " A large East-end theatre capable of holding considerably over 3, 000 persons.

Frontiersman Charles " Buffalo " Jones lived in a sod house for a time in Osborne County prior to his co-founding Garden City, Kansas, in 1879.

Warren was first settled in 1879 by Charles Wenzel.

The first newspaper in the area was the Mississippi Messenger, established by Judge Charles A. Stovall in 1879.

Townsend was named by railroad officials, in honor of the wife of Charles Barstow Wright, president of the Northern Pacific ( 1875 – 1879 ).

Charles H. Adams served as mayor from 1870 to 1872 and as Congressman from 1877 to 1879.

* Charles Skelton ( 1806 – 1879 ), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.

According to The Engineering and Mining Journal, in 1879 the Lance Colliery was operated by Charles Parrish & Co., a subsidiary or tenant of the L & W-B.

In a letter sent to Chicago on September 30, 1879, Land Commissioner Charles E. Simmons communicated the layout of the series of towns in Brookings County to be passed through by the railroad.

The story of how Charles Ingalls and his wife Caroline arrived in De Smet in 1879 by covered wagon from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, is told by a cast of thirty in an open-air theater near the old Ingalls homestead and the Surveyors ' House.

Bickleton was first settled in 1879 by Charles N. Bickle.

King Charles and his ministers wished to strengthen the conservative element in the chambers, but the laws of 1874, 1876 and 1879 only effected slight reforms pending a more thorough settlement.

* Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter ( 1879 )

In 1879, a county seat election was held, and Anthony won over Harper City even though 2, 960 ballots were cast with 800 legal voters in the county.

In May 1876, he was appointed joint professor of systematic theology and apologetics with James Harper, principal of the United Presbyterian Theological College, whom he succeeded as principal in 1879.

* Dr Margaret Harper ( 1879 – 1964 ), paediatrician, who discovered the difference between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis of the pancreas in 1930.

According to Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, " Polack " meant as " Polish immigrant, person of Polish descent " was used in American English until the late 19th century ( 1879 ) to describe a " Polish person " in a non-offensive way ( 1574 ).

In 1879 the Faculty of Medicine was presented with a project for a new hospital, and after many changes in the plans and suggested locations, it was eventually installed in the Hospital Clinic on the eastern side of the city's Eixample district in 1900.

Ebdon suggested a crest, and in 1879 it was to be found on the letterhead of the Salvation Army Headquarters.

At the same time he became known in the world of letters ; the academic subtlety and literary achievement of his Defence of Philosophic Doubt ( 1879 ) suggested that he might make a reputation for himself as a philosopher.

Wilhelm Steinitz suggested in 1879 that a better move would be 18 ... Qxa1 +; likely moves to follow are 19. Ke2 Qb2 20. Kd2 Bxg1.

Sophus Bugge suggested in 1879 that flamen is from an older * flădmen and related to the Germanic blót.

In 1879, Russia suggested that it maintain a strong presence in the region but China did not agree.

However, it has also been suggested that, in England, it derived from the engine of that name, built in 1879 by Neilson and Company for the Great Eastern Railway.

In August 1879, he suggested in Parliament that Forrest had made improper use of crown land, then followed it up by writing a letter to the Herald listing the land that was held by members of the Forrest family.

In 1879, as the institution was struggling to find resources to continue, Governor Oran Roberts suggested closing the college.

The concept of a penalty goal for fouls within of the goal was suggested at a Sheffield FA meeting in 1879.

In 1879, Joseph Leidy suggested collapsing all the " common " large, freshwater amoebae into one species, which he proposed to call Amoeba proteus.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

He helped foster support from the conservatives by enacting several tariffs protecting German agriculture and industry from foreign competitors in 1879.

In 1879 Roses suffered a devastating economic crisis through phylloxera, a pest of the grapevines, which destroyed the town's wine growing industry.

The industry was helped in 1879 when the Texas Central Railroad reached Dublin, and in 1889 when the Fort Worth and Rio Grande was completed through Stephenville.

This competition was sharpened by the Long Depression of 1873-1896, a prolonged period of price deflation punctuated by severe business downturns, which put pressure on governments to promote home industry, leading to the widespread abandonment of free trade among Europe's powers ( in Germany from 1879 and in France from 1881 ).

The name Port Vale exists on maps pre – dating the formation of the club, which probably occurred in 1879, and is a reference to a valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal, associated with the city's pottery industry.

A VERY EXTENSIVE REPOSITORY of photos and documents ( over 6, 000 items ) related to the history ( including the area's oil industry dating from 1879 ), schools and other institutions, and people of the greater Bolivar N. Y. area ( including current and former residents ) is maintained on Facebook as the " Bolivar New York Fan Page.

An extensive collection of photos and documents ( over 6, 000 items ) related to the history ( including the area's oil industry dating from 1879 ), schools and other institutions, and people of Bolivar N. Y. ( including current and former residents ) is maintained on Facebook as the " Bolivar New York Fan Page.

* George Holt Thomas ( 1879 – 1929 ), aviation industry pioneer and newspaper proprietor

James Buchanan Duke ’ s entrance into the cigarette industry came about in 1879 when he elected to enter a new business rather than face competition in the smoking tobacco business against the Bull Durham brand, also from Durham, North Carolina.

* 1879 – The federal government of Sir John A. Macdonald, as part of its national Policy, institutes protective tariffs on manufactures and on farm products ; the tariffs help Ontario industry but hurt farmers.

Later in 1879, Irishman Thomas Henry FitzGerald arrived in the area to help establish the sugar industry.

After observing the insurance industry in Great Britain in 1879, MetLife President Joseph F. Knapp brought “ industrial ” or “ workingmen ’ s ” insurance programs to the United States – insurance issued in small amounts on which premiums were collected weekly or monthly at the policyholder ’ s home.

He came to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1879 to work for Phoenix Furniture Company, and began a career that had significant and lasting effects on the furniture industry.

St. Andrew's was founded in 1929 by A. Felix duPont ( 1879 – 1948 ), a member of the Du Pont family, which made its fortune in the chemical industry.

He entered the lumber business in 1879, and subsequently played a major role in developing the industry in Manitoba's northwest.

In 1879, the Reading gained control of the North Pennsylvania Railroad and gained access to the burgeoning steel industry in the Lehigh Valley.

Most likely because the Beveridge-curve enabled economists to analyze many of the problems Beveridge addressed, such as, mismatch between unemployment and vacancies, both at aggregate level and industry levels, trend versus cyclical changes and measurement problems of vacancies, the curve was named in the 1980s after William Beveridge ( 1879 – 1963 ).

He employed W. A. Rogers and G. M. Bond in 1879 to develop the Rogers-Bond comparator, credited with rescuing mechanical science and industry from inconvenience.

William Signius Knudsen ( March 25, 1879 – April 27, 1948 ) was a leading automotive industry executive.

There were also a small number of Italian immigrants who had been brought to the area from Turin in 1879, as part of a scheme to start a silk industry in the Knysna area.

Although the young firm thrived in the telegraph industry, it was not until the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and the incandescent lamp by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879, that Western Electric began to gain stature as a large company.

** William S. Knudsen ( 1879 – 1948 ), Danish American automobile industry executive

In 1879, he opened the gates of his new works in Altrincham, which became the hub of the sand blasting industry in Great Britain.