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.