October.E2.80.93December 1879

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october 7 – dual alliance formed germany , austria-hungary.
october 8 – naval battle of angamos fought during naval stage of war of pacific.
october 13 – first female students admitted study degrees of oxford university in england, @ new lady margaret hall , somerville hall , society of oxford home-students.
october 17 – sunderland association football club formed group of schoolteachers in north east of england.
october 22 – using filament of carbonized thread, thomas edison tests first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).
november – land acquired simmons college of kentucky, historically black school, established baptist institution.
november – age of michael begins, according french occultist eliphas levi, , johannes trithemius.
november 4 – thomas edison applies patent invention, incandescent light bulb. u.s. patent 223,898 granted on january 27, 1880.
november 10 – bell telephone company , western union reach agreement in united states, in former assents staying out of telegraphy, , latter keep out of telephone business.
december 21 – henrik ibsen s controversial drama doll s house premières @ royal danish theatre in copenhagen (having been first published on december 4 in city).
december 28 – tay bridge disaster: central part of tay rail bridge @ dundee, scotland, collapses in storm train passes on it, killing 75.
december 31

thomas edison demonstrates incandescent lighting public first time in menlo park, new jersey.
gilbert , sullivan s comic opera pirates of penzance opens @ fifth avenue theatre in new york city (following token performance day before u.k. copyright reasons in paignton, devon).






^ palmer, alan; veronica (1992). chronology of british history. london: century ltd. pp. 303–04. isbn 0-7126-5616-2. 
^ steiner, rudolf (1994) [1917]. bamford, christopher, ed. archangel michael. hudson, new york: anthroposophic press. isbn 0-88010-378-7. 
^ usher, abbott payson (1954). history of mechanical inventions. courier dover publications. p. 402. 
^ schwarzlose, richard a. (1990). nation s newsbrokers: rush institution: 1865 1920. northwestern university press. p. 84. 
^ penguin pocket on day. penguin reference library. 2006. isbn 0-14-102715-0. 






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