1878 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1878?
- January 4, 1878 – Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
- January 9, 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- January 16, 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
- February 18, 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
- February 19, 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- February 21, 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- March 3, 1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
- March 24, 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- June 4, 1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- June 10, 1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
- July 1, 1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
- July 4, 1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
- July 5, 1878 – The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.
- July 13, 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
- September 1, 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- September 3, 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat SS Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- October 15, 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- November 17, 1878 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- December 18, 1878 – John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
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