1878

Years:
1875 1876 1877 - 1878 - 1879 1880 1881

Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1878 in topic:
Humanities
Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
By country
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK
Other topics
Rail Transport - Science - Sports
Lists of leaders
Colonial Governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

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 - Disraeli orders British fleet to Dardanelles
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 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
February 11 - 1st 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 - Leo XIII becomes new 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

May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established
June 4 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
June 12-July 12 - Congress of Berlin about the Ottoman Empire
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.
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

The Buchan School was founded on the Isle of Man.
Newton Heath founded in that year. Later the team was renamed as Manchester United.
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.
The Hindu founded
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.