Events from 1879

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1879

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1879 ID: 364
Gottlob Frege publishes 'Begriffsschrift', introducing predicate logic with quantifiers and establishing modern symbolic logic
ID: 364
University of Jena
1879 ID: 409
Alfred Kempe publishes a 'proof' of the Four Color Theorem (later shown to be flawed)
ID: 409
1879 ID: 1017
Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary established
ID: 1017
1879 ID: 1018
William Tebb founds Anti-Vaccination Society of America in New York; Vaccination Inquirer founded
ID: 1018
New York
1879 ID: 1019
Thomas Edison perfects the incandescent light bulb
ID: 1019
1879 ID: 1020
Gottlob Frege publishes Begriffsschrift, creating mathematical logic notation
ID: 1020
1879 ID: 1021
Georg Cantor develops systematic theory of ordinal numbers - analysis of different types of infinity
ID: 1021
1879 ID: 1022
Constantin Fahlberg discovers saccharin in Ira Remsen's laboratory at Johns Hopkins
ID: 1022
Johns Hopkins University
1879 ID: 4469
James Ritty invents cash register - mechanical calculator for business transactions, sold to NCR in 1884
ID: 4469
1879 ID: 4586
Planck receives doctorate from Munich - dissertation on second law of thermodynamics, age 21
ID: 4586
1879 ID: 1016
August 4, 1879
Pope Leo XIII issues Aeterni Patris promoting Thomistic philosophy in seminaries
ID: 1016
1879 ID: 1023
August 21, 1879
Our Lady of Knock - silent apparition with St. Joseph, St. John, Lamb on altar, 15 witnesses
ID: 1023
Knock

Books & Texts from 1879

📖 henry-james - confidence
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - edinburgh-picturesque-notes
📖 isabella-l-bird - a-ladys-life-in-the-rocky-mountains
📖 wilkie-collins - the-haunted-hotel-a-mystery-of-modern-venice
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - travels-with-a-donkey-in-the-cevennes
📖 henry-james - the-international-episode