1878

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1875 1876 1877 – 1878 – 1879 1880 1881

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1878 Media

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  June 13: Congress of Berlin

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  January–September – Cleopatra's Needle erected in London.

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  Europe after the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the territorial and political rearrangement of the Balkan Peninsula.

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  October 31 – Eldkvarn burns in Stockholm.

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  Carl Sandburg, American poet

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  Theodoros Pangalos

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  Photograph of Joseph Gordon Coates in 1931.

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  Portrait of Japanese Prime Minister Hirota Koki (広田弘毅, 1878 – 1948)

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  Vicente Mejía Colindres

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  A younger Lionel Barrymore.

1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1878th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 878th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1878, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• March 3 – The Treaty of San Stefano ends the Russo-Turkish War.
• June 12 – July 12 – Congress of Berlin meets to talk about the independence of the Balkans following the Russo-Turkish War.
• Ipswich Town F.C. founded
• Everton F.C. founded
• Manchester United F.C. founded

Deaths

• February 7 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)