1878

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1875 1876 1877 - 1878 - 1879 1880 1881 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January – Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London\n* January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy\n* January 23 – Disraeli orders British fleet to Dardanelles\n* January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.\n* January 31 - Turkey agrees to armistice at Adrianople\n* February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.\n* February 8 - British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Constantinople - Russia threatens to occupy Constantinople but does not carry out the threat\n* February 11 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.\n* February 11 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK\n* February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico\n* February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison\n* February 24 - Anti-Russian demonstrations in Hyde Park, London\n* February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)\n* March 3 - Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire.\n* March 3 - Russia arranges Pan-Slavist peace treaty with Turkey at San Stefano\n* March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.\n* March 25 - Russia rejects British proposal to lay San Stefano treaty before European congress\n* March 27 - In anticipation with war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta\n* May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established\n* June 4 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.\n* June 12 - July 12 - Congress of Berlin about Turkey\n* July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia completely independent\n* 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.\n* September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.\n* October 15 - The Edison Electric Company begins operation.\n* October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. \n* Yellow fever in Mississippi Valley - over 13.000 dead\n* US arbitration rejects Argentinean claims to Paraguay's part of Chaco region\n* West Bromwich Albion F.C play their first match.

Births

\n* January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (d. 1967)\n* January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, author (d. 1952)\n* January 20 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968)\n* January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer\n* February 2 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer\n* February 5 - André Citroën, automobile pioneer\n* February 8 - Martin Buber, philosopher\n* February 14 - Hirota Koki, Japanese prime minister (d. 1948)\n* February 26 - Emmy Destinn, opera singer (d. 1930) \n* March 16 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Münster and cardinal (d. 1946)\n* March 22 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete\n* March 27 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect \n* March 31 - Jack Johnson, the first African American to hold a boxing title. \n* April 6 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)\n* April 24 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist\n* May 10 - Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (d. 1929)\n* May 26 - Isadora Duncan, dancer (d. 1927)\n* July 4 - George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, composer, actor, writer (d. 1942)\n* July 24 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author\n* August 31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)\n* September 13 – Matilde Moisant, pioneer aviatrix (d. 1964)\n* September 22 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)\n* October 1 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist\n* October 16 - Maxey Long, American athlete\n* December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder (d. 1941)\n* December 31 - Elizabeth Arden, (d. 1966), beautician, and cosmetics entrepreneur

Deaths

\n*February 7 - Pope Pius IX\n*April 12 - William Marcy Tweed, American politician, former "Boss" of Tammany Hall.\n*December 14 - Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, second daughter of Queen Victoria and consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.\n*Angelo Secchi - pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n