1878 - What happened in 1878 ?

January 1878

Wednesday 09:

Humbert I becomes King of Italy.

Monday 28:

The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.

February 1878

Saturday 02:

Greece declares war on Turkey.

Monday 18:

The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Tuesday 19:

The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

Thursday 21:

The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.

March 1878

Sunday 03:

Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire.

Sunday 24:

The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.

June 1878

Tuesday 04:

Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

July 1878

Monday 01:

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

Tuesday 02:

What will becomes the BMT Brighton Line opens in the City of Brooklyn (which merged with Manhattan and other counties to become the City of of Greater New York in 1898)

Saturday 13:

Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.

Friday 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.

Sunday 28:

Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigatake peak (3,180 meters), and he names the mountain the Japanese Alps, a name that is eventually used to refer to the entire mountain range.

August 1878

Wednesday 21:

The American Bar Association is founded

September 1878

Tuesday 03:

Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

October 1878

Tuesday 15:

The Edison Electric Company begins operation.

Tuesday 22:

The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.