Page 3: Historical Events In 1879

Feb 24   Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun).   

Feb 25   Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act   

Feb 25   Congress passed inaugural Timberland Protection Act.   

Feb 25   Otakar Ostrcil, composer   

Feb 26   Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten.   

Feb 27   Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)   

Feb 27   Jose Sancho Marraco, composer.   

Feb 27   Two American chemists announce the discovery of saccharin.   

Feb 28   "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation   

Mar 01   Library of Hawaii founded   

Mar 03   1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood).   

Mar 03   The inaugural female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood).   

Mar 03   The United States Geological Survey was established.   

Mar 03   US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior   

Mar 04   Bernhard Kellermann, writer.   

Mar 05   Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)   

Mar 08   M Lichnowsky, writer.   

Mar 11   Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt   

Mar 11   Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer.   

Mar 13   Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60.   

Mar 14   Albert Einstein, Austrian scientist is born   

Mar 14   Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity)   

Mar 14   Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany   

Mar 15   Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)   

Mar 19   Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)   

Mar 23   War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country   

Mar 25   Otakar Zich, composer   

Mar 27   Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography   

Mar 27   Longest championship fight (136 rounds).   

Mar 29   Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow.   

Mar 30   David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74.   

Apr 04   Gabriel Groulez, composer.   

Apr 05   Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.   

Apr 08   Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers   

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Jan 01   Edward m forster: England, novelist (howards end, passage to india)   

Jan 01   Emile argand: Swiss geologist (dekbladen theory)   

Jan 01   Ernest jones: British psychoanalyst (life & work of sigmund freud)   

Jan 01   William fox: Us film pioneer (nickelodeon)   

Jan 02   Johannes l "jan" walch: Dutch literary (grimaces)   

Jan 02   Pieter tesch: Dutch geologist (pedestal of nederlands)   

Jan 03   Grace anna goodhue coolidge: 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   Hans eppinger: Austrian physician    

Jan 09   Don joaquin bf espartero: Fieldmarshall/viceroy of navarra,    

Jan 13   Wf hendrik the navigator: Prince of neth/viceroy of lux,    

Jan 16   Octave crémazie: French canadian poet (b. 1827)   

Jan 22   Anthony durnford: British colonel,    

Jan 23   Adolf jensen: Composer,   

Jan 29   Antonia mb antonucci: Italian cardinal/diplomat,   

Feb 11   Honore daumier: Caricaturist/painter,   

Feb 21   Peter p van bosse: Dutch liberal minister of finance,