Time Line 1879
- death of Venerable Cornelia Connelly
- apparition of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Evangelist at Knock, Ireland
- death of Blessed Jeanne Jugan
- death of Blessed Luigi Biraghi
- death of Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger
- death of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
- Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Aeterni patris, urging the study of “true” philosophy; this led to a revival of both Thomist and Scholastic philosophy
- birth of Blessed Gaetano Catanoso
- birth of Blessed Leonid Feodorov
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- Thomas Edison first demonstrates the incandescent lamp
| 1878 | 1880 |
