1878: Encyclopedia II - 1878 - Events

1878 - Events

1878 - January - April

• 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

1878 - May - August

• 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 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.

1878 - September - December

• 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

1878 - Unknown date

• 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.

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