On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

The Preamble traces Fiji's constitutional history, from its settlement by the ancestors of the Fijian and Rotuman peoples and the subsequent arrival of numerous different peoples, through the decision of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the King who had united all of Fiji's tribes under his leadership in 1871, and his subsequent decision to cede the country to Great Britain on 10 October 1874, and the later decision of the Rotuman chiefs to cede Rotuma in November 1879, to the gaining of independence from the United Kingdom and the adoption of the first constitution in 1970, the abrogation of that constitution in 1987, and the subsequent proclamation of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Fiji and the promulgation of a republican constitution by the President, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, in 1990, and the subsequent constitutional review undertaken in the mid-1990s, leading to the adoption of the present document.

Following the collapse of Sir Thomas Bouch's Tay Bridge in 1879, Fowler, William Henry Barlow and Thomas Elliot Harrison were appointed in 1881 to a commission to review Bouch's design for the Forth Railway Bridge.

* John Thomas Gilbert, Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, 1641-1652 ( Dublin, 1879 – 1880 )

Originally published in the North American Review, April 1879.

In 1879, when a Board of Review commissioned by President Rutherford B. Hayes issued its report recommending a pardon for Fitz John Porter, it attributed much of the loss of the Second Battle of Bull Run to McDowell.

* " Political Economy and Sociology ", Fortnightly Review ( January 1, 1879 )

Mozoomdar wrote the first English biography of Ramakrishna, entitled The Hindu Saint in the Theistic Quarterly Review ( 1879 ), which played a vital role in introducing Ramakrishna to Westerners like the German indologist Max Müller.

He established a distinguished law practice in Boston, Massachusetts, and from 1873 to 1879 was editor of the American Law Review.

He returned to Andover in 1879 as professor of sacred rhetoric and became an editor of the Andover Review and a founder of The South End House, one of Boston's first settlement houses for the poor.

Review of A Source Book in Mathematical Logic 1879 – 1931.

* E. H. Parker, " The Sadness of Separation or Li Sao ", China Review 7 ( 1878 – 1879 ): 309-314.

* Nevada Short Line No. 1-Baldwin-built narrow gauge 2-6-0 ( Mogul Type ) constructed in 1879 ; on static display with a few cars and rests above all other trains on an elevated track ; last time it was run was in 1939-40 for the Golden Gate International Exposition on daily reactments of the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony.

* Lewis, Charlton T. & Short, Charles ( 1879 ): căchinno.

Despite this record, Short was hired as a scout for the United States Army cavalry and worked in that capacity from 1878 to 1879.

* Robert C. Tucker Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879 – 1929: A Study in History and Personality.

In 1879 Renault published his Introduction to the Study of International Law and in 1917 First Violations of International Law by Germany, concerning the invasion of Belgium and of Luxembourg in breach of Germany's treaty obligations.

Guido Fubini ( 19 January 1879 – 6 June 1943 ) was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini – Study metric.

Downstairs there are now, as in 1879, the Headmaster ’ s Study, the Senior Common Room, offices and classrooms.

Other noted works include: Byblis turned into a Spring ( 1867 ); The Magdalene ( 1878 ); Portrait of M. Hayem ( 1878 ); Christ Entombed ( 1879 ); Saint Jerome ( 1881 ); Herodias ( 1887 ); A Study ( 1891 ); Christ in His Shroud and a Portrait of Carolus-Duran ( 1896 ); a Portrait of Mlle Fouquier ( 1897 ); and The Dream ( 1900 ).

* 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb ( it lasted 13½ hours before burning out ).

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Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879

** Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor ( b. 1879 )

* July 8 – Thomas Meighan, American actor ( b. 1879 )

* December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp.

* William Thomas Mercer ( 1821 – 1879 ), British Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong, 1859 – 1868

* Thomas W. Sherman ( 1813 – 1879 ), United States Army officer

General Thomas was born in 1787 and died in 1879.

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Thornburg in 1879 The town was founded by the railroad and named in memory of Major Thomas T. Thornburgh, who died in the Meeker Massacre.

Thomas went to Sweden, recruited immigrants and led them first into New Sweden township followed by the townships of Westmanland in 1879 and Stockholm in 1881.

The Gaylord Coal Co., operated by Thomas Beaver and Daniel Edwards, took control of the Gaylord, and later merged with the Kingston Coal Co. On March 5, 1879, the breaker at the Gaylord was destroyed by fire.

Thomas Stevenson Drew, the third governor of Arkansas, died in Lipan in 1879.

* Thomas Townley-Parker, son ( 1822 – 1906 ), 1879 – 1906 ;

Thomas Couture ( 21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879 ) was an influential French history painter and teacher.

The recently restored Sicilian marble statue of John Gray ( Irish politician ) | Sir John Gray, designed by Thomas Farrell and erected in 1879.

Thomas Norton Longman died on August 29, 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas ( 1804 – 1879 ) and William ( 1813 – 1877 ), in control of the business in Paternoster Row.

It was consecrated by Archbishop Thomas Croke on 21 / 06 / 1879.

* Thomas Watters Brown ( 1879 – 1944 ), Northern Irish politician

Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs, R. A ( Liverpool: D. Marples, 1879 ).

* John Thomas ( cricketer ) ( 1879 – 1949 ), cricketer for Somerset

An early form of circuit breaker was described by Thomas Edison in an 1879 patent application, although his commercial power distribution system used fuses.