1878

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Year 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1878
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

[edit] Events of 1878

[edit] January - March

January - Cleopatra's Needle.

January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London
January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy
January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV
January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv
January 23 - Benjamin Disraeli orders British fleet to the Dardanelles
January 24 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
January 31 - Turkey agrees to armistice at Adrianople
February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
February 8 - British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Istanbul - Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul but does not carry out the threat
February 11
- First US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
- First weekly Weather report published in UK
February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico
February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison
February 20 - Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.
February 24 - Anti-Russian demonstrations in Hyde Park, London
February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)
March 3
- Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire.
- The Treaty of San Stefano concludes the Russo-Turkish War
March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
March 25 - Russia rejects British proposal to lay San Stefano treaty before European congress
March 27 - In anticipation with war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta

[edit] April - June

April 20 - The Stawell Gift is run for the first time.
May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established
June 4 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
June 10 - League of Prizren is established
June 12-July 12 - Congress of Berlin about the Ottoman Empire
June 22 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.

[edit] July - September

July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro and Romania completely independent
July 26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
September 20 - The Hindu founded

[edit] October - December

October 1 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
October 14 - The worlds first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield
October 15 - The Edison Electric Company begins operation.
October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
November 21 - Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass.
November 29 - Kahua, the chief of Jaluits in the Marshall Islands, declares himself king of the Ralik Islands

[edit] Undated

The Buchan School was founded on the Isle of Man.
Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club, the team that would become Manchester United, was founded.
Yellow fever in Mississippi Valley - over 13,000 dead
US arbitration rejects Argentinean claims to Paraguay's part of Chaco region
West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.
Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo, formed

[edit] Births

**1878 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1878 MDCCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2631
Armenian calendar	1327 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	34 – 35
Buddhist calendar	2422
Chinese calendar	4514/4574-11-28 (丁丑年十一月廿八日) — to — 4515/4575-12-8 (戊寅年十二月初八日)
Coptic calendar	1594 – 1595
Ethiopian calendar	1870 – 1871
Hebrew calendar	5638 – 5639
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1933 – 1934
- Shaka Samvat	1800 – 1801
- Kali Yuga	4979 – 4980
Holocene calendar	11878
Iranian calendar	1256 – 1257
Islamic calendar	1294 – 1296
Japanese calendar	Meiji 11 (明治11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2538 (皇紀2538年)
- Jōmon Era	11878
Julian calendar	1923
Korean calendar	4211
Thai solar calendar	2421
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