Notable Historical Events - 1878
1878 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule. |
Jan 8 |
Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley |
Jan 9 |
Umberto I becomes King of Italy. |
Jan 10 |
US Senate proposes female suffrage |
Jan 14 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional |
Jan 16 |
Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. |
Jan 24 |
Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. |
Jan 28 |
1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT) |
Jan 28 |
George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator |
Jan 28 |
Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper |
Feb 2 |
Greece declares war on Turkey |
Feb 10 |
Peace of Zanjón |
Feb 10 |
Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres |
Feb 11 |
1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms |
Feb 11 |
1st weekly weather report published in UK |
Feb 12 |
Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358) |
Feb 16 |
Silver dollar became US legal tender |
Feb 17 |
1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones |
Feb 18 |
John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. |
Feb 19 |
Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) |
Feb 21 |
World's 1st telephone directory issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) |
Feb 22 |
Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio) |
Feb 28 |
US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate |
Mar 1 |
First winter ascent of Aneto |
Mar 3 |
Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) |
Mar 13 |
Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match |
Mar 24 |
British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost |
Mar 26 |
Hastings College of Law founded in California |
Mar 26 |
Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens |
Apr 2 |
1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper |
Apr 10 |
California St Cable Car RR Co starts service |
Apr 15 |
Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap |
Apr 21 |
First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn |
Apr 21 |
NY installs 1st firehouse pole |
Apr 21 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili |
Apr 21 |
Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia |
Apr 23 |
1st Dutch test drive of steam tram |
May 2 |
US stops minting 20 cent coin |
May 4 |
Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House |
May 8 |
1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines |
May 14 |
Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) |
May 19 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield |
May 21 |
4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25 |
May 23 |
Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia |
May 24 |
CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston |
May 25 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London |
May 27 |
6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 |
May 27 |
Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19 |
May 31 |
German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed |
May 31 |
US Congress accepts decrease in dollar circulation |
Jun 4 |
Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes |
Jun 8 |
12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5 |
Jun 11 |
DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) |
Jun 13 |
Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization |
Jun 15 |
1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground |
Jul 1 |
Treaty of Berlin divides Africa for colonization |
Jul 1 |
Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. |
Jul 5 |
The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established. |
Jul 7 |
Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam |
Jul 9 |
An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo |
Jul 12 |
Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 |
Jul 13 |
Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends |
Jul 13 |
Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano |
Jul 17 |
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa |
Jul 20 |
1st telephone introduced in Hawaii |
Jul 20 |
2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7) |
Jul 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. |
Jul 30 |
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election |
Jul 30 |
Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties |
Aug 21 |
American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY |
Aug 21 |
Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match |
Sep 1 |
1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
Sep 3 |
British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die |
Sep 12 |
Cleopatra Needle installed in London |
Sep 25 |
British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest pubic health announcements on the dangers of smoking |
Sep 30 |
1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii |
Sep 30 |
Great Flood hits New Zealand's South Island |
Oct 15 |
Edison Electric Light Company incorporated |
Oct 17 |
After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
Oct 18 |
Edison makes electricity available for household use |
Oct 21 |
German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism" |
Oct 22 |
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. |
Nov 1 |
Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) |
Nov 6 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter" premieres in Oslo |
Nov 10 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa" premieres in Moscow |
Nov 17 |
First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy. |
Dec 1 |
1st White House telephone installed |
Dec 3 |
Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel |
Dec 9 |
Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500 |
Dec 12 |
Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch" |
Dec 18 |
French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed |
Dec 18 |
John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania. |
Dec 26 |
1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia |
Dec 28 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism) |
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