* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

* 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner ( d. 1961 )

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

* 1878 – William Merz, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1946 )

* 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist ( d. 1958 )

* 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress ( b. 1878 )

File: Edouard_Manet_The_Rue_Mosnier_with_Flags. jpg | The Rue Mosnier with Flags, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1878

In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family.

Apparently, the pi – theorem was first proved by J. Bertrand in 1878.

With Professor G. D. Living, one of his colleagues at Cambridge, he began in 1878 a long series of spectroscopic observations, the later of which were devoted to the spectroscopic examination of various gaseous elements separated from atmospheric air by the aid of low temperatures ; and he was joined by Professor J.

In mathematical physics, especially as introduced into statistical mechanics and thermodynamics by J. Willard Gibbs in 1878, an ensemble ( also statistical ensemble or thermodynamic ensemble ) is an idealization consisting of a large number of mental copies ( sometimes infinitely many ) of a system, considered all at once, each of which represents a possible state that the real system might be in.

* J. J. Richards ( 1878 – 1956 ) " The Long Beach March King "

The, bridge was built in 1878 by B. C. Carter and J. F. Stauffer across Conestoga River.

The ad claimed the town was started in 1878 after J. H.

The LaGrange County Courthouse was designed in 1878 by Thomas J. Tolan, & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The first newspaper in Murray County was established by a Mr. Bromwich on January 1, 1878 and later purchases by J.

In 1878, J. A.

Initially established around 1878 by W. J. Adams as Limitville, it was nicknamed " Tanglefoot " because several of its first businesses were saloons.

In 1878, Geddes was the home of Western Coarse Salt Company, Turk's Island Coarse Salt Company, Geddes Coarse Salt Company, Union Coarse Salt Company, Cape Cod Coarse Salt Company, W. & D. Kirkpatrick of No. 7 Wieting Block, Draper & Porter, W. B. Boyd, Mrs. S. O. Ely and J. F. Paige.

B. Peck ; 1870 – 1871, M. Robinson ; 1872 – 1873, S. M. Lester ; 1874, J. H. Bonesteel ; 1875, John H. Alsin ; 1876, David Horton ; 1878 – 1880, Milo Robinson ; 1881, Arthur M. Peck ; 1882, Andrew J.

* Detailed history of Cumberland, from History of the State of Rhode Island, by Albert J. Wright, 1878.

Events turned bloody on February 18, 1878, when Tunstall was spotted while driving a herd of nine horses towards Lincoln and murdered by William Morton, Jesse Evans, Tom Hill, Frank Baker and Sheriff William J. Brady of Lincoln County — all members of a posse serving the House, sent to attack McSween's holdings.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

Reference may also be made to William Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physicians ( 2nd ed., London, 1878 ); and the Introduction, by J. F. Payne, to a facsimile eproduction of Linacre's version of Galen de temperamentis ( Cambridge, 1881 ).

It is a late 15th century Perpendicular Gothic building but the outer aisles were designed by J. P. St. Aubyn and added in 1878.

; J Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists ( London, 1878 ); DG Mostratos, Die Pädagogik des Helvétius ( Berlin, 1891 ); A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius ( 1894 ); A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Milan, 1889 ); Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus ( Stuttgart, 1896 ); L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Verona, 1902 ); A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre ( 1907 ); Isaiah Berlin, " Helvétius " in Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed.

J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1878.

J. H. Haverly in turn purchased Callender's troupe in 1878 and applied his strategy of enlarging troupe size and embellishing sets.