1878

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Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years:	1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881

Template:C19YearInTopicX 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 Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1878

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 - Lord Beaconsfield 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 Constantinople - Russia threatens to occupy Constantinople but does not carry out the threat
• February 11 - First US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
• February 11 - 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.
• March 3 - 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

April - June

• 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

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

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

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.
• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the first one to navigate the Northern Sea Route, which is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.
• The Stawell Gift is run for the first time.
• Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo, formed

Births

1878 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1878 MDCCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2631
Armenian calendar	1327 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	6628
Baháʼí calendar	34–35
Balinese saka calendar	1799–1800
Bengali calendar	1285
Berber calendar	2828
British Regnal year	41 Vict. 1 – 42 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2422
Burmese calendar	1240
Byzantine calendar	7386–7387
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4575 or 4368     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4576 or 4369
Coptic calendar	1594–1595
Discordian calendar	3044
Ethiopian calendar	1870–1871
Hebrew calendar	5638–5639
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1934–1935
- Shaka Samvat	1799–1800
- Kali Yuga	4978–4979
Holocene calendar	11878
Igbo calendar	878–879
Iranian calendar	1256–1257
Islamic calendar	1294–1296
Japanese calendar	Meiji 11 (明治１１年)
Javanese calendar	1806–1807
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4211
Minguo calendar	34 before ROC 民前34年
Nanakshahi calendar	410
Thai solar calendar	2420–2421
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 2004 or 1623 or 851     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 2005 or 1624 or 852

January - June

• January 6 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
• January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, author (d. 1952)
• January 20 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968)
• January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
• February 1 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. 1944)
• February 2 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)
• February 5 - André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935)
• February 8 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d. 1965)
• February 14 - Hirota Koki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
• February 26 - Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d. 1930)
• February 21 - The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville in India (d. 1973)
• February 28 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
• March 4 - Egbert Van Alstyne, United States songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
• March 4 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
• March 4 - Arishima Takeo, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. 1923)
• March 16 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1946)
• March 22 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919)
• March 31 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
• April 6 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
• April 24 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
• April 28 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
• April 28 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
• May 3 - Cruz Hernandez, Oldest Living Person (disputed) (d. 2007)
• May 10 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)
• May 25 - Bill Robinson, Tap Dancer (d. 1949)
• May 26 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
• May 28 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
• June 1 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist (d. 1967)
• June 3 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (d. 1946)
• June 5 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

July - December

• July 4 - George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d. 1942)
• July 24 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (d. 1957)
• August 10 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
• August 28 - George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
• August 31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
• September 5 - Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (d. 1913)
• September 13 - Matilde Moisant, American pilot (d. 1964)
• September 17 - Brian Reddyb, Irish footballer (d. 1966)
• September 22 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
• September 20 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
• September 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
• October 1 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
• October 16 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• November 1 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
• November 14 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
• November 17 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d. 1939)
• December 18 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d. 1953)
• December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (d. 1941)
• December 25 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film executive (d. 1961)
• December 31 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1966)
• December 31 - Horacio Quiroga, Argentina's writer was born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1937)

Unknown dates

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See also Category: 1878 births.

Deaths

January - June

• January 9 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• January 18 - Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (b. 1788)
• February 7 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• February 11 - Gideon Welles, American politician (b. 1802)
• February 19 - Charles-Francois Daubigny, French painter (b. 1817)
• February 26 - Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1818)
• March 8 - Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (b. 1802)
• April 12 - William Marcy Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
• April 25 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• May 28 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• June 6 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b. 1790)
• June 6 - Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (b. 1795)
• June 8 - Porter Rockwell, Mormon bodyguard (b. 1815)
• June 12 - George V of Hanover (b. 1819)

July - December

• July 17 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
• August 30 - James Geiss, English businessman (b. 1820)
• November 28 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
• December 10 - Henry Wells, American businessman (b. 1805)
• December 14 - Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1843)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1878 deaths.