Madison Avenue. June 1 – Anglo-Zulu War: Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France, son of Napoléon III, is killed in Africa while attached to the British Army. June 4 – Yasukuni Shrine is officially renamed from Tokyo Shokonsha Shrine in Japan. June 6 – William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, on the River Clyde in Scotland. On October 2 they launch the first transatlantic steamer of the same material, the SS Buenos Ayrean; on December 1 she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow, bound for South America. June 14 – Sidney Faithorn Green, a priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices. June 21 – German company Linde is founded by Carl von Linde. June 30 – The 1879 Surigao earthquake measuring 7.4 causes major damage in the northern tip of Mindanao Island. July–September July 1 – An 8.0 earthquake shakes southern Gansu, killing 22,000 people. July 1 – American Christian Restorationist Charles Taze Russell publishes the first issue of the monthly Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence which, as The Watchtower, will become the most widely circulated magazine in the world. July 4 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Ulundi: A British victory effectively ends the war. July 8 – Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated United States Jeannette Expedition departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the North Pole, by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait. July 16 – The city of Kotka is founded in Kymenlaakso, Finland, by separating its two islands from the old Kymi parish. August 1 – Tokio Marine (insurer) is founded in Japan, as Tokio Marine Holdings. August 16 – Fulham F.C. is founded in London as a church soccer team. August 21 – Claimed apparition to local people at Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint John the Evangelist and Jesus Christ (as the Lamb of God). September – Henry George self-publishes his major work Progress and Poverty. September 8 – A fire in The Octagon, Dunedin (New Zealand), claims 12 victims. September 19 – The Blackpool Illuminations in England are switched on for the first time. September 25 – A fire in Deadwood, South Dakota, leaves 2,000 people homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3