Koch ' s Disease, for instance, was an instance of simple eponymy.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Put It Another Way] Reference

It is dated the first of Nisan (March) in the eponymy of Shamash dananni, probably 644.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

But eponymy doesn't necessarily involve the conscious act of naming.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

15th, 763 B.C., which is recorded in the eponymy of Pur-Sagale, placing the dead reckoning for these later periods upon an absolutely certain basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference