Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.

At the close of his administration, he retired to private life at Fruit Hill, where he died in 1879.

To help take their minds off their baby's death, the Bateses rejoined touring with W. W. Cole in the summer of 1879, and again in the spring of 1880, but that was to be their final tour, after which they retired.

He retired on 31 December 1879 and died at 399 Fulham Road, London, on 29 June 1882.

Sir Norman Giles retired in 1975 after 54 years with Elders but his successors – Sir Norman Young and Harold Schmidt – kept the momentum rolling and only a year later took over Pitt, Son and Badgery which had been founded in 1879.

In 1877 his health gave way, and he retired from the editorship ; and on the 22nd of November 1879 he died at Ascot.

Shepstone had been summoned home to advise the Colonial Office on South African affairs and he reached England in May 1879 ; on his return to Natal he retired ( 1880 ) from the public service.

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

In 1879, Bernard Aguirre retired temporarily from teaching because of health problems.

Balfour retired from his academic post in 1879.

Labouchère bought out his partners and used the theatre to promote Hodson's talents ; the theatre made a loss, Hodson retired, and the theatre closed in 1879.

He later served in the 6th Parliament as a representative for Taieri from a until the end of the parliamentary term in 1879, when he retired.

At this time, having been appointed commander of the VII Army Corps at Besançon, he retired from political life and, in 1879, became inspector-general of the army.

On 22 January 1879, at Rorke's Drift, Natal, Corporal Schiess, in spite of having been wounded in the foot a few days previously, displayed great gallantry when the garrison had retired to the inner line of defence and the Zulus had occupied the wall of mealie bags which had been abandoned.

He retired a Governor of Berlin in 1879.

He retired in 1879 and was given a pension.

He became a permanent brigadier general and Chief of Engineers in 1866, a position he held until June 30, 1879, when he retired, serving during this period on lighthouse and other engineering boards.

Hasbrouck retired to Kingston, New York, where he died of pneumonia on 23 February 1879.

He served as the Governor of the Philadelphia Naval Asylum from 1876 until 1879, when he retired from active service.

He retired December 10, 1874, and died five years later on March 22, 1879.

In 1879 he retired to Milson's Point, Sydney, where he died on 12 August 1881 following a short illness.

After the war Werder commanded the Baden forces, now called the XlVth Army Corps, until he retired in 1879.

While he retired in 1879, he was made general of infantry in 1883 and then general of artillery in 1889.

In 1879 he opposed in the Reichstag the new protectionist tariff, and on the failure of his efforts retired definitely from public life in 1881.

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.

Clara Belle Marshall, from Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, became the first woman to graduate from Acadia University in 1879.

* Malleson, George Bruce ( 1879 ) History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 W. H.

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

In the fall of 1872 he entered the Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium ( Collegium fridericianum, the same school that Immanuel Kant had attended 140 years before ), but after an unhappy period he transferred ( fall 1879 ) to and graduated from ( spring 1880 ) the more science-oriented Wilhelm Gymnasium.

In 1879, his Ernest Maltravers was the first complete novel from the West to be translated into Japanese.

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

Captain Germán Astete of the Peruvian Navy took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the US to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile War of the Pacific.

In 1879, Bismarck formed a Dual Alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary, with the aim of mutual military assistance in the case of an attack from Russia, which was not satisfied with the agreement reached at the Congress of Berlin.

The period from 1879 to 1899 saw power in the hands of moderate republicans and former " radicals " ( around Léon Gambetta ); these were called the " Opportunists ".

The impi, in its Shakan form, is best known among Western readers from the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, particularly the famous Zulu victory at Isandhlwana, but its development was over 60 years in coming before that great clash.

Like his older brother, Davis Rich Dewey, he attended the University of Vermont, from which he graduated ( Phi Beta Kappa ) in 1879.

He declined an honorary doctorate of music from University of Cambridge in 1877, but accepted one from the University of Breslau in 1879, and composed the Academic Festival Overture as a gesture of appreciation.

He spent his childhood in Kanazawa, capital of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, and was educated in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University in 1879.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

He was the second Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge ( following James Clerk Maxwell ), from 1879 to 1884.

Sir George Ferguson Bowen was governor from 1879 to 1883.

In 1985 the Queensland Government attempted to terminate the proceedings by enacting the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985, which declared that on annexation of the islands in 1879, title to the islands was vested in the state of Queensland " freed from all other rights, interests and claims whatsoever ".

Hotham also found itself well represented at the first ever inter-colonial game in 1879 with four players from the club gaining selection for Victoria.

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

* Modified text from the 9th edition ( 1879 ) of an unnamed encyclopedia