1878

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Years:	1875 1876 1877 - 1878 - 1879 1880 1881

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[edit] Events of 1878

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 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

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
September 30 - The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878-1913).

October 1 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
October 14 - The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield
October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
November 17 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
November 21 - Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass.

Foundations:

The Buchan School, Isle of Man.
Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club, the team that would become Manchester United
Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo
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.
Grimsby Town FC then known as Grimsby Pelham