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Year 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1878

January–March

January – Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London.
January 5 – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire.
January 9 – Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
January 17 – Battle of Plovdiv: Russian troops defeat the Turks.
January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles .
January 24 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg .
January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States .
January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople .
February 2 – Greece declares war on Turkey .
February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies after 32 year reign.
February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Istanbul ; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul but does not carry out the threat.
February 18 – The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico .
February 19 – The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
February 20 – Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.
February 24 – Anti-Russian demonstrations occur in Hyde Park, London .
February 28 – Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi).
March 3
- Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- The Treaty of San Stefano concludes the Russo-Turkish War
March 24 – The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
March 25 – Russia rejects a British proposal to lay the San Stefano treaty before a European congress.
March 27 – In anticipation of war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta .

April–June

April 20 – The Stawell Gift is run for the first time.
May 2 – The Washburn "A" Mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota explodes, killing 18.
May 15 – The Tokyo Stock Exchange is established
June 4 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains the nominal title.
June 10 – The League of Prizren is established.
June 12 – July 12 – The Congress of Berlin convenes to discuss the Ottoman Empire.
June 22 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.

July–September

July 13 – The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia , Montenegro and Romania completely independent.
July 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 is found later with a taunting poem inside.
August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, destroys the town of Wallingford , killing 34 people and injuring 70 or more.
September 3 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
September 20 – The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, is founded.
September 30 – The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal , Madeira , marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913).

October–December

October 1 – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
October 14 – The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield .
October 17 – John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
November 17 – The first assassination attempt is made against Umberto I of Italy.
November 21 – The Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass .

Undated

Yellow fever in Mississippi Valley kills over 13,000.
U.S. arbitration rejects Argentine claims to Paraguay 's part of the Chaco region.
Otto von Bismarck abandons his Kulturkampf.
Otto von Bismarck forces through legislation outlawing the Social Democrats.

Foundations

Ipswich Town Football Club is formed as an amateur club. Known as Ipswich A.F.C they did not turn professional until 1936.
The Buchan School , Isle of Man
Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club, the team that would become Manchester United
Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo
Grimsby Town FC then known as Grimsby Pelham
Geiger initially known as Geiger Brothers.
Nainital Cantonment
The West Bromwich Albion F.C. plays their first match.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, America's oldest university press, was established.