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.

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.

Thulium was discovered by Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve in 1879 by looking for impurities in the oxides of other rare earth elements ( this was the same method Carl Gustaf Mosander earlier used to discover some other rare earth elements ).

The Gesamtentwurf of Act III was completed on 16 April 1879 and the Orchesterskizze on the 26th of the same month.

Bessemer was knighted for his contribution to science on 26 June 1879, and in the same year was made a fellow of the Royal Society.

In a 1902 letter, he announced the discovery to Gottlob Frege of the paradox in Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift and framed the problem in terms of both logic and set theory, and in particular in terms of Frege's definition of function ; in the following, p. 17 refers to a page in the original Begriffsschrift, and page 23 refers to the same page in van Heijenoort 1967:

In the same year ( 1879 ) he published The Economics of Industry with his wife Mary Paley.

Not only were they both American expatriates with similar temperaments, but they were of the same age, being born on the same day, 19 May 1879.

This land was used to create a county named Wisdom County, but " Wisdom County " was never organized, and in March 1879 the Assembly repealed this and created Chester County out of the same land.

Henry County voters decided in the 1879 and 1885 court house site elections not to locate a court house on the public square, Henry has been Alabama's only county with three court houses at the same time.

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.

A post office was established in 1879, in section 8, and was later moved to section 10, in the same building as a store, with a creamery nearby.

In that same year Borodin started on his Symphony No. 2 in B minor, which was not particularly successful at its premiere in 1877 under Eduard Nápravník, but with some minor re-orchestration received a successful performance in 1879 by the Free Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction.

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.

He was defeated again for the same seat in 1877, but won in August 1879.

He received his Ph. D. at the University of Vienna in 1876, and completed his habilitation thesis at the same university in 1879.

In 1879, after Stone organized a petition by suffragists across the state, Massachusetts women were given strictly delimited voting rights: a woman who could prove the same qualifications as a male voter was allowed to cast her vote for members of the school board.

Although the League discouraged violence, agrarian outrages grew widely from 863 incidents in 1879 to 2, 590 in 1880 after evictions increased from 1, 238 to 2, 110 in the same period.

When a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on 27 February 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the German Football Association ( DFB ), eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded Fußball-Club Bayern München.

Born in Paris, he was called to the bar in 1879 and distinguished himself by brilliant pleadings in favour of socialist and anarchist leaders, defending Prince Kropotkine at Lyon in 1883, Louise Michel in the same year.

Using the same sign from the Utica store, Frank opened his first successful " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store " on July 18, 1879, in Lancaster.

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.

At the same theatre in 1879, he played the part of Po-Hi opposite Santley in Tita in Thibet, a two act comedy musical by Frank Desprez.

1879 ) described Clark as " the most accomplished and versatile man he ever met ".

The university was one of the first institutions in America to grant a law degree to a woman ( Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson, 1873 ), to grant a law degree to an African American ( G. Alexander Clark, 1879 ), and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad ( Frank Holbrook, 1895 ).

* Ginger Clark ( 1879 – 1943 ), American baseball pitcher

After resigning the presidency of MAC in 1879, Clark left academia to become the president of a mining company, Clark & Bothwell.

Infuriated by what he called, " time-serving politicians and unprincipled newspapers seeking only to float on the tide of public opinion ," Clark resigned in 1879.

The 2004 exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet: The Bruyas Collection from the Musee Fabre, Montpellier, sought to compare the 19th-century Realist painters Courbet, Honoré Daumier ( 1808 – 1879 ), and early Édouard Manet ( 1832 – 1883 ) with artists associated with Romanticism, including Géricault and Delacroix.

He was professor of intellectual and moral philosophy at Bowdoin College from 1879 to 1881, and Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale University from 1881 until 1901, when he took charge of the graduate department of philosophy and psychology ; he became professor emeritus in 1905.

Not to be confused with Frank Workman, born in Belfast 16 Feb 1856, youngest of 15 children in a family of Scottish origin who were muslin manufacturers, who started the Belfast Shipyard of Workman Clark in 1879.

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

A Doll's House received its world premiere on 21 December 1879 at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Betty Hennings as Nora and Emil Poulsen as Torvald.

Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.

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.

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.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

In 1879, amid talks surrounding the closure of the university due to its dire financial situation, a wealthy New York publisher with Nova Scotia roots, George Munro, who was also the brother-in-law of Dalhousie's Board of Governors member John Forrest, began to donate to the university.

King Mohammad Yaqub Khan with Britain's Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari | Sir Pierre Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

In 1879, he went to work with Bernhard von Gudden at the University of Munich, where he completed his thesis, " The Place of Psychology in Psychiatry ".

In 1879 the partnership with Seyrig was dissolved, and the company was renamed the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel.

The city's main newspaper is the Tribune de Genève, with a readership of about 187, 000, a daily newspaper founded on 1 February 1879 by James T. Bates.

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.

In 1879, he left home to work as an apprentice machinist in the city of Detroit, first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co.

List of monarchs of Afghanistan | King Mohammad Yaqub Khan | Yaqub Khan with Britain's Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

By the time of Shaka's assassination in 1828, it had made the Zulu kingdom the greatest power in southern Africa and a force to be reckoned with, even against Britain's modern army in 1879.

In July 1879 a separate ' Torpedo Engineer Corps ' was created dealing with torpedoes and mines.

In 1879, the CIPM adopted the definition of the litre, with the symbol l ( lowercase letter L ).

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.

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.

In the Eastern crisis of the 1870s, fear of a repetition of this turn of events would later be a factor in Bismarck's signing the Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1879.