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4 unusual facts about 1878


John McCandless Thompson

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.

Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1873–1878

George Grimes won the resulting by-election on 18 November 1876.

Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1875–1878

:x Sturt MHA Samuel Way resigned on 20 March 1876 to take up the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.

Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878

Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 is a two-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning book by American historian Constance McLaughlin Green.


Alfred Comyn Lyall

Lyall's ideas regarding the development and organisation of society in India were developed principally during the time he spent working in the Central Provinces, Berar and Rajputana between 1865 and 1878.

Alfred Woltmann

Conjointly with the author he adapted the fifth volume of Schnaase's Geschichte der bildenden Künste for the second edition (1872), and with Karl Woermann began a Geschichte der Malerei (1878), completed after his death by his collaborator.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Armenians in Bulgaria

In 1878, there were 5,300 Armenians in the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia, and this number increased by almost 20,000 after the Hamidian massacres.

Bohumil Makovsky

Bohumil Makovsky represented a fulfillment of the "American Dream." He was born on September 23, 1878 in Františky, Bohemia to a Czech speaking family of Vaclav and Anna Hladik Makovsky.

Bonneville County, Idaho

Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

Bulgarians in Germany

After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, the German Empire continued to be a centre of higher education for Bulgarians, and hundreds of Bulgarian students were sent to Germany on state scholarships by the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia (pre-1885).

C. fenestrata

Cotinusa fenestrata, Taczanowski, 1878, a jumping spider species in the genus Cotinusa found in Peru

Caesarism

Benjamin Disraeli was also famously accused of Caesarism in March of 1878 when, in In anticipation of war with Russia, he mobilised British reserves and called Indian troops to Malta.

Calixto Bravo Villaso

He dies in 1878, he was the last survivor from the Mexican War of Independence.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Christopher Rheinlander Robert

Christopher Rheinlander Robert (Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, 23 March 1802, Paris, France, 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Robert College later known as Boğaziçi University.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Edward Irvin Scott

Around 1878, the paper commission failed, and the family lived in Camden, New Jersey,

Epes W. Sargent

He was born in Nassau, Bahamas on August 21, 1872; he came to the United States in 1878 with his parents.

Fernando Magalhães

Fernando Magalhães (February 18, 1878 – January 10, 1944) was a Brazilian obstetrician who was twice President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

Guy Maier

After Maier and Pattison heard a two-piano performance by Harold Bauer (1973-1951) and Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936), they began to play together.

History of nationality in Gibraltar

There was a Genoese population of fishermen who came to Gibraltar since 1840 for the fishing season and would build temporary shelters or live in caves, and by the 1878 census, they had established a permanent village at Catalan Bay.

Howard M. Snapp

He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Globe, Arizona and returned to Joliet, Illinois, and continued the practice of law.

Hristo G. Danov

As the war led to Bulgaria's liberation, Danov had his printing office moved from Vienna to Plovdiv (which in 1878 became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, which united with the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885).

International Association of the Congo

It was not made clear to Henry Morton Stanley, who signed a five-year contract to establish bases in the Congo in 1878, whether he was working for the International African Association, the Committee for Study of the Upper Congo, or Leopold himself.

Jake Volz

Jacob Phillip "Silent Jake" Volz (April 4, 1878 – August 11, 1962) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1901 and 1908 for the Boston Americans (1901), Boston Beaneaters (1905) and Cincinnati Reds (1908).

James B. Weaver

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 on the Greenback ticket and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from 1879 to 1881, but in 1880 was nominated for the presidency instead of re-election to Congress.

James Duffy

James P.B. Duffy (1878–1969), former U.S. Congressman from New York

John Ellsworth Weis

At 14 years of age, he enrolled in night classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the faculty of which included Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969), Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), and Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).

John Mush

Thomas Francis Knox, Records of the English Catholics (London, 1878, 1882);

Kempster Blanchard Miller

His brother was businessman, rancher and citrus farmer Azariel Blanchard Miller (1878–1941), founder of the city of Fontana, California.

Maratha titles

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE): It is a title created by the British and is a part of The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878.

Markree Observatory

In 1878, Cooper’s assistant, Andrew Graham, discovered the asteroid 9 Metis with the Comet Seeker.

Martin Buber

--This source says this Martin Buber's birthdate and death is 1878 to 1965 so it has to be the same person-->Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten included the first German translation ever made of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Martin Krippner

He was chairman of the Puhoi Highway District Board in 1874, and in 1877 and 1878 served on the Rodney County Council.

Milton Sayler

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Mutty Lall Seal

In 1878 Kissori Chand Mitra delivered a lecture on the life of Mutty Lall Seal calling him the "Rothschild of Calcutta".

Newcastle East Public School

This impressive edifice was built in 1878 by architect George Mansfield and is listed by the State Heritage Register.

Niall Thompson

He started his professional career as a trainee with Crystal Palace but after an unsuccessful spell moved to play for Colchester United, Montreal Impact, Zultse VV, Seattle Sounders, Brentford, Vancouver 86ers, Airdrieonians, Bay Area Seals, Wycombe Wanderers, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps.

Nikolay Nikolsky

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.

Philip C. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878.

René Vierne

He was born at Lille in France on 11 March 1878 and was the younger brother of Louis Vierne.

Rimsky Korsakov

Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov (1878–1940), Russian musicologist and son of Nikolai

Samuel Decius Hubbard

He moved to Mondovi in Buffalo County in 1878, and was elected a fourth time to the Assembly in 1884 for Buffalo County as a Republican, with 1,604 votes to 1,177 for Democratic former Assemblyman George Cowie.

Saul Samuel

Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.

Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet

Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Harrold Priory (1878–1963), Scottish businessman, writer and lecturer

Tapanui Branch

Construction of the line began in 1878 with the first section opened in 1880, and it operated until 1978, when it was destroyed by flooding from the Pomahaka River.

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques

and the repertoire developed more in the field of operetta, La fille de Madame Angot by Charles Lecocq in 1873, Les cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette in 1877, Madame Favart, by Jacques Offenbach in 1878, La fille du tambour-major by Offenbach in 1879, La fauvette du temple by André Messager in 1885 and La Béarnaise by Messager in 1887 being among the premieres seen at the theatre.

Trocha from Júcaro to Morón

The Trocha from Júcaro to Morón was a fortified military line built between 1869 and 1872 in Cuba by slave work force and Chinese immigrants to impede the pass of insurrectionist forces to the western part of the island during the 1st War of Independence (1868–1878) and was 68 km long between Júcaro and Morón.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1880

The Democrats had gained complete control of Florida's congressional delegation in 1878, although the results of the election in the 2nd district were successfully challenged, so that a single Republican represented Florida in the House for the last two months of the 46th Congress.

Walter George

Walter F. George (1878–1957), American politician from the state of Georgia

Wassoulou Empire

The Wassoulou Empire, sometimes referred to as the Mandinka Empire, was a short-lived (1878–1898) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.


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