The development of the area was spurred by the discovery of large silver deposits near Rico in 1879, and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was constructed through the County to connect Durango, Telluride, and Ridgway in 1890-92 The RGS served the eastern end of Dolores County until 1952 when it was abandoned.

Site Selections: In the year 1879, the Southern Minnesota Railroad began building a route from Heron Lake, to Fulda.

In 1879, after the end of Reconstruction in the South, thousands of Freedmen moved from Southern states to Kansas.

On 24 February 1879, Robinson was transferred to New Zealand, and on 21 August 1880, in the wake of the Anglo-Zulu War, he succeeded Sir Henry Bartle Frere as High Commissioner for Southern Africa ( George Cumine Strahan was also appointed as interim administrator to act until Robinson could arrive from New Zealand ).

* Carlia tetradactyla ( O ' Shaughnessy, 1879 ) -- Southern Rainbow-skink

* 1879: Southern Pacific engineers experiment with the first oil-fired locomotives.

The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics 1869 — 1879 ( 1984 )

A railway station was opened one km east of Murrumburrah on the Main Southern line in 1877 as Murrumburrah Station, but changed its name to Harden Station a year after the opening of a new station in Murrumburrah in 1879.

* Exodus of 1879 ( The Kansas Exodus ), in which black Americans known as Exodusters fled the Southern United States for Kansas

Hugh Kennedy ( 11 July 1879 – 1 December 1936 ) was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State, and later the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State.

* Charles H. Tuttle ( 1879 – 1971 ), lawyer, U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

In 1879, Downey joined some public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney, in laying the groundwork for the University of Southern California, the first university in the region.

However, the Markham troupe left San Francisco for Arizona in October, 1879 on board the Southern Pacific Railroad, not by ship.

Southern Bell began 1879 as The Atlanta Telephonic Exchange and was based in Atlanta.

The concept of Southern University was put forth by P. B. S. Pinchback, T. T. Allain, Henry Demas, and as an institution " for the education of persons of color " at the 1879 Louisiana State Constitutional Convention.

* 1 December-Hugh Kennedy, only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland, first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State and first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State ( born 1879 ).

The building of the Canada Southern Railroad in 1870, and of the Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway three years later helped to make Hagersville a prosperous village in 1879.

In January 1879, he married a widow named Louisa Hearn, and they spent some time prospecting for gold near Southern Cross.

Southern Gospel was promoted by traveling singing school teachers, quartets, and shape note music publishing companies such as the A. J. Showalter Company ( 1879 ) and the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company.

The regiment was formed in 1879 as the Gold Coast Constabulary, from personnel of the Hausa Constabulary of Southern Nigeria, to perform internal security and police duties in the British colony of the Gold Coast.

Sidney Patrick Grauman ( March 17, 1879 – March 5, 1950 ) was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater.

Toy, however, was dismissed from Southern in 1879 following a series of controversial lectures and publications concerning his doctrine of Scripture, notably influenced by the European higher critics of his milieu.

From 1869 to 1879 he was professor of Hebrew in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ( first in Greenville, South Carolina, and after 1877 in Louisville, Kentucky ), and in 1880 he became professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at Harvard University, where until 1903 he was also Dexter lecturer on biblical literature.

* 1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

In the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 83 ), Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and won its current northern territory.

As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia ( 1879 – 1883 ), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

* 1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.

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.

Example of recent expressions of Bolivian irredentism over territorial losses in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1884 ).

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.

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.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.

The Pacific fleet flagship is the cruiser BAP Almirante Grau ( CLM-81 ), named for the 19th-century Peruvian Admiral who fought in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1883 ).

* War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1884 )

In 1879, the Supreme Court of the United States formally established, in its decision regarding Union Pacific Railroad vs. United States ( 99 U. S. 402 ), the official " date of completion " of the Transcontinental Railroad as November 6, 1869.

Blaine's primary task was settling a complex international war between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru that started on April 5, 1879, known as the War of the Pacific.

In 1879 at the beginning of the War of the Pacific, Bolivia issued letters of marque to any vessels willing to fight for them.

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.

Relations with Chile, strained since Bolivia's defeat in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 83 ) and its loss of the coastal province of Atacama, were severed from 1962 to 1975 in a dispute over the use of the waters of the Lauca River.

Friction between the new settlers from both countries grew until 1879 when the War of the Pacific erupted.

The Nez Perce came from the Pacific Northwest in 1879, but remained only until 1885, when they returned to their earlier homeland.

The Territorial legislature authorized Billings County in 1879, naming it for Northern Pacific Railway president Frederick H. Billings.

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

The initial meeting of the Pacific Coast branch of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was held in Pacific Grove in June 1879.