* 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 )

Hindoo ( 1878 – 1901 ) was an outstanding American Thoroughbred race horse who won 30 of his 35 starts, including the Kentucky Derby, the Travers Stakes and the Clark Handicap.

B. Davis hung by vigilantes for stealing horses 1878

The fastest time for the 1½ mile race is 2: 39 by the horses Felicia set in 1877, tied by Belle of Nelson in 1878 and tied again Katie Creel in 1882.

The first sod was cut on 1 January 1878 and 100 men, 50 horses and carts, 1 steam dredger and several barges were involved in the work.

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.

On February 18, 1878, members of the Sheriff's posse caught up to Tunstall, who was herding his last nine horses back to Lincoln.

On 18 February 1878, Tunstall and several of his ranch hands, including William Bonney, were driving nine horses from Tunstall's ranch on the Rio Feliz to Lincoln.

Following the 1868 – 1878 rebellion of the Ten Years ' War, all slavery was abolished by 1884, making Cuba the second-to-last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, with Brazil being the last.

This began the Ten Years ' War, which lasted from 1868 to 1878, and eventually contributed to the abolition of slavery.

During the time of the so-called " Rewarding Truce ", which encompassed the 17 years from the end of the Ten Years ' War in 1878, fundamental changes took place in Cuban society.

The earliest of these camps may have been those set up in the United States for Cherokee and other Native Americans in the 1830s ; however, the term originated in the reconcentrados ( reconcentration camps ) set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ) and by the United States during the Philippine – American War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

The first Cuban Baptists were patriots who were exiled to the United States during the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ).

Ten years after Berwald's death, his Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, " Naïve ", was premiered in 1878 ( the originally planned 1848 premiere in Paris having been cancelled because of the political unrest of the time ).

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.

" He was imprisoned until the Pact of Zanjón and the end of the Ten Years ' War, was signed in 1878.

The Maceos enlisted as privates when the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ) began.

Ignacio Agramonte y Loynáz ( 1841 — 1873 ) was a Cuban revolutionary, who played an important part in the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ).

Spain's colony of Cuba rebelled in 1868, leading to a sequence of brutal guerrilla insurgencies and retaliations, through the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ), the Little War ( 1879 – 1880 ) and finally the Cuban War of Independence ( 1895 – 1898 ).

There he participated in that country's Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ) against Spain.

Moreover, in the framework of the Ten Years War ( 1868 – 1878 ) in Cuba, Canarian emigration was considered by Cuban autonomists and separatists as differentiated from the peninsular, leading to promote it to that place.