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.

Soon afterwards, an uprising in Kabul led to the slaughter of Britain's Resident in Kabul, Sir Pierre Cavagnari and his guards and staff on 3 September 1879, provoking the second phase of the Second Afghan War.

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

In Australia, the Royal National Park was established just south of Sydney in 1879, becoming the world's second official national park.

The second major clash was against the British during 1879.

A second collection Hwomely Rhymes followed in 1858, and a third collection in 1863 ; a combined edition appeared in 1879.

Thus, in 1879, a second committee was formed to create a college " in which no distinction will be made between students on the ground of their belonging to different religious denominations.

Australia's first national park-and the second in the world-is Royal National Park in New South Wales, established in 1879.

Another precedent to the prepared piano was an experiment by the French composer Maurice Delage ( 1879 – 1961 ): his Ragamalika ( 1912 – 22 ), based on the classical music of India, calls for a piece of cardboard to be placed under the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum.

His Annapolis experiment was refined, and in 1879, he measured the speed of light in air to be 299, 864 ± 51 kilometres per second, and estimated the speed of light in vacuum as 299, 940 km / s, or 186, 380 mi / s.

Parsons received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1879, and a second from Columbia's School of Mines in 1882.

Founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879, it is the world's second oldest purposed national park ( after Yellowstone in the United States ), and the first to use the term " national park ".

It was proclaimed in 1891 and was the first National Park in South Australia, second in Australia ( after Sydney's Royal National Park which was proclaimed in 1879 ) and the tenth in the world.

In 1879, the Southern Pacific Railroad was in the process of building a railroad line from Yuma to Tucson, and a second railroad line was to be built from Maricopaville, wrapping around the western edge of South Mountain into Phoenix.

The first grain elevator was built in 1870 by Church and Hartley ; the second was built by the Hathaway Brothers in 1872 ; and in 1879, James Irvin built a third.

In 1879, with the coming of the railroad, a second post office named Arcade was established one mile east of the present site of Shelby.

Avoca is a country Victorian house constructed in 1901, after the original and second dwellings were destroyed by fire in 1879 and 1900.

Its reception by the literary world was cool, but the second version of 1879 is a rounded and satisfying artistic product.

1877 ); Charles Voysey, Fragments from Reimarus ( London, 1879 ) ( a translation of the life of Reimarus by Strauss, with the second part of the seventh fragment, on the " Object of Jesus and his Disciples "); the Lives of Lessing by Danzel and G. E. Guhrauer, Sime, and Zimmern ; Kuno Fischer, Geschichte der neuern Philosophie ( vol.

A change is noticeable the next year, 1879, in the Annunciation and in the four pictures making up the second series of Pygmalion and the Image ; the former of these, one of the simplest and most perfect of the artist's works, is subdued and sober ; in the latter a scheme of soft and delicate tints was attempted, not with entire success.

His second store was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and it opened in April 1879.

Frank soon made a second attempt and opened his " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store ", using the same sign, on June 21, 1879, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Landslides ( peatslips ), caused by excessive peat cutting, destroyed part of the town in 1879 and 1886, the second landslide killing two people.

In 1879 Oakland's growing Jewish community organized a second congregation, a strictly orthodox group, Poel Zedek.

In 1879, the Central Pacific Railroad re-routed the Sacramento-Oakland portion of its transcontinental line, establishing a major railroad ferry across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia to Port Costa.

Port Costa was founded in 1879 as a landing for the railroad ferry Solano, owned and operated by the Central Pacific Railroad.

A railroad was built in 1879, connecting Novato to Sonoma County and San Rafael.

Early settlements sprung up around waterways, but as the railroad and train depot became a reality in 1879, the town centered around these landmarks.

A new iron railroad bridge was fabricated in Athens, Pennsylvania at a cost of $ 30, 000 and shipped, by rail, to the site and erected in April and May 1879.

In 1876 the Lafayette Bloomington and Mississippi Railroad was leased to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad which purchased the line in 1879. and the railroad is usually remembered under this name.

In 1876 the railroad was leased to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and 1879 was incorporated into that road.

When the Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railroad ( which became the Illinois Central Railroad ) came through the area in 1879, John Putnam purchased of land from the railroad and a town was later established there.

Kinross was created by people moving to be close to a new railroad depot in 1879 by moving both houses and businesses.

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.

The town had been founded in August 1879 as a station for the railroad under construction.

Wellman is named for Joseph Edward Wellman, who in July, 1879, provided of his farmland for railroad construction including lots for development near the depot.

Grenola was established in 1879 when two towns, Green Field and Canola, combined after the railroad was built in between the two towns.

The Climax post office, renamed from Belle Grove in 1873, moved several miles east in 1879 into what would later be the town, the same year a railroad was constructed through the site.

By 1879, a railroad was built to serve Osawatomie, aiding its growth into a supply town and a main shipping point.

On September 2, 1879, they voted down a proposition to give the railroad a $ 10, 000 grant.

On September 2, 1879, they voted down a proposition to give the railroad a $ 10, 000 grant.

The current town site was laid out when the railroad was being built in August 1879.

Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.

In 1879, Judge Smith laid out his addition to Verndale, north of the railroad tracks, in Section 19 of Aldrich Township.

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

In 1879, Columbus became the focus of a war between railroad companies.