* 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 – 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 )

Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina ( August 19, 1878 – August 1, 1944 ) served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944.

In 1878 he became the co-founder, along with his friend Manuel de Elzabura, of the Puerto Rican Review.

* Manuel Torre or Manuel Torres ( 1878 – 1933 ), flamenco singer

The Ten Years ' War () ( 1868 – 1878 ), also known as the Great War and the War of ' 68, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain.

Manuel Pardo y Lavalle ( August 9, 1834 – November 16, 1878 ) was a Peruvian politician and the first civilian President of Peru.

On November 16, 1878, Manuel Pardo was assassinated by gunshot.

L. DeVinne ’ s “ The Invention of Printing ”, New York 1878.

* Vernon L. Lidtke, The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878 – 1890 ( Princeton University Press, 1966 ).

* 5-George L. Lorillard ( 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 )

His fine historical romance Vor dem Sturm ( 1878 ) was followed by a series of novels of modern life, notably L ' Adultera ( 1882 ), a book about adultery which was considered so risqué that it took Fontane two years to find a publisher.

* William L. Smith ( barber ) ( 1878 –?

The author of the 1878 History of Livingston County says only two things about Mr. Forrest: he was a business partner of C. L. Frost, an official of the Toledo, Peoria and Western, and that he had promised to do something for the young village and that promise was “ unfulfilled .” The first version of the name was said to be Forestville, spelled with one ‘ r ,” but Forrest quickly came into use.

In phase two ( 1878 to 1888 ), with work completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas L. Casey, white marble for the exterior was used from a different Cockeysville quarry.

In March 1878, L. W.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

The first schoolhouse in the Keizer area was built in 1878, and its first teacher was Nina McNary, older sister of U. S. Senator Charles L. McNary.

In 1878, James L. Mills traversed the trail over the Cascade Mountains from Puget Sound by foot, and saw great possibilities in the Kittitas Valley.

Among more modern editions Baehrens ( 1878, the first of the modern critical editions ) has outlived his contemporaries L Müller ( 1880 ), Hiller ( 1885 ), and John Percival Postgate ( 1905 ).

* This work in turn cites M. Kähler, Julius Müller ( 1878 ); L. Schultze, Julius Müller ( 1879 ) and Julius Müller als Ethiker ( 1895 ).

* L. H. Everts, Jefferson County History ( 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.

See L ' abate Galiani, by Alberto Marghieri ( 1878 ), and his correspondence with Tanucci in Giampietro Vieusseux's L ' Archivio storico ( Florence, 1878 ).

Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle ( 1852-1854 ), L ' Idée de Dieu ( 1864 ), Le Matérialisme et la science ( 1868 ), Le Pessimisme au XIX ' siècle ( 1878 ), Jours d ' épreuve ( 1872 ), M. Littré et le positivisme ( 1883 ), George Sand ( 1887 ), Mélanges et portraits ( i888 ), La Philosophie de Goethe ( 2nd ed., 1880 ).

* Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Isabella L. Bird, 1878 travelogue of Victorian-era woman traveller, Hakodate letters

* The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, contains a version with the later text and was published in Boston in 1878 ; reprint by DaCapo Press, 1980, with New Introduction by Roger L. Hall.

* Bert L. Rule ( 1891 – 1878 ), Tin Pan Alley composer & arranger

Among his other more important works are G. Courbet, et ses œuvres ( 1878 ); L ' Histoire des Beaux-Arts en Belgique 1830-1887 ( 1887 ); En Allemagne ( 1888 ), dealing especially with the Pinakothek at Munich ; La Belgique ( 1888 ), an elaborate descriptive work with many illustrations ; La Vie belge ( 1905 ); and Alfred Stevens et son œuvre ( 1906 ).