Important Historical Events of the year 1878, Year 1878 in History

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List of 1878 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1878

What happened in the year 1878?

Date	Event
January 4, 1878	Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule.
January 9, 1878	Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
January 16, 1878	Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
January 28, 1878	Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
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 directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
March 3, 1878	The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
March 4, 1878	Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603.
March 24, 1878	The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.[28][29]
April 16, 1878	The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
May 14, 1878	The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
May 25, 1878	Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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 Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
June 15, 1878	Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
July 1, 1878	Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
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.
August 21, 1878	The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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 Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
October 15, 1878	The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
October 22, 1878	The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
November 17, 1878	First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
December 1, 1878	President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
December 18, 1878	The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
December 31, 1878	Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.