Memorial Fountain, built in the center of the diamond to honor the Civil War soldiers, was dedicated on July 17, 1878 with fifteen thousand people in attendance.

* Views of Our Heavenly Home ( 1878 ), each with illustrative diagrams and The Fountain with Jets of New Meanings ( 1870 ) Illustrated published by McCrea & Miller.

Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonah ( 1878 – 1938 ) and Mollie Gardner ( 1883 – 1943 ).

Keston WindmillKeston has had three windmills over the centuries: the post mill built in 1716 that still stands on Keston Common, a smock mill known as Olive's mill, built in 1824 and burnt down between 1878 and 1885, and a third mill, which stood at Holwood Park.

In 1878 the grounds of the house where the prince stayed were improved by the famed American landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds and in the present century were given to the town and have become Renfrew Park.

Block 16 of the plat was not divided into lots and 1878 was being called the City Park.

In 1878 William H. Upham, later governor of Wisconsin, built a sawmill near the railway, with a millpond where the baseball field now is in Miller Park.

In 1878, a third fire company was formed by the residents in the neighborhood of Sixth Street and Park.

Shortly after 1878, the Imperial Park Land Society and it sister organisation Beeston Building Society were founded.

The club played at Reading Recreation Ground until 1878, before moving on to Reading Cricket Ground ( 1878 – 1882 ), Coley Park ( 1882 – 1889 ) and Caversham Cricket Ground ( 1889 – 1896 ).

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.

* Apsley House and Park Lane, Old and New London: Volume 4 ( 1878 ), pp. 359 – 375

It was only in June 1878, however, that Congress finally approved a salary of $ 10, 000 a year for the park's superintendent, as well as minimal funds " to protect, preserve, and improve the Park.

In 1692, when the street was paved, a tax was levied on the loads .< ref name = old >< cite >' The Haymarket ', Old and New London: Volume 4 ( 1878 ), pp. 216-26 accessed: 31 March 2007 </ ref > In 1830 the market was moved to Cumberland Market near Regent's Park.

Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878, and was created a baronet, of Holland Park Road in the Parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, eight years later.

About 2 am on 10 October 1878, a Constable Robinson saw a light appear suddenly in a window at the back of a house in St John's Park, Blackheath, south-east London, the residence of a Mr. Burness.

On June 29, 1878, somewhat fewer than 100 Bohemians gathered in the Redwoods in Marin County near Taylorville ( present-day Samuel P. Taylor State Park ) for an evening sendoff party in Edwards ' honor.

Sokolniki Park, in the 18th century the home of the tsar's falconers well outside of Moscow, became contiguous with the expanding city in the later 19th century and was developed into a public municipal park in 1878.

In 1878 Wisconsin set aside a vast swath of its northern forests as " The State Park " but, needing money, sold most of it to lumber companies within 20 years.

Edelweiss is a protected plant in many countries, including Mongolia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland ( since 1878 ), France, Norway, Iran, India ( Zanskar region ), Italy, Serbia, Malaysia ( In Genting and Cameron Highlands ), Indonesia ( In Semeru Mountain ), Germany, Spain ( Ordesa National Park ), Poland and Slovakia ( Tatra National Park ), Slovenia ( in Gorizia and Gradisca since 1896, in Carniola since 1898 ), Austria ( since 1886 ) and Romania ( since 1933 ).

* On July 2, 1878 steam railroad trains of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway began operations from Prospect Park to the Brighton Beach Hotel, which opened at the same time, located on Coney Island at the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of modern-day Coney Island Avenue at The Boardwalk.

* On August 18, 1878 service was extended north from Prospect Park to Atlantic Avenue west of Franklin Avenue, a location known as Bedford Terminal of the BB & CI and Bedford Station of the Long Island Rail Road.

A short piece of two-tracked elevated railroad was built from the ramp connecting to the Fulton Street Elevated as far as Park Place, where the original 1878 open cut began.

Though this part of the route is on the alignment of the 1878 open cut, it was rebuilt in 1918 to 1920 to a four track line with an express station at Prospect Park, a local station at Parkside Avenue ( replacing the original station at Woodruff Avenue ) and another express station at Church Avenue.

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

In the United Kingdom, the 1878 British Dentists Act and 1879 Dentists Register limited the title of " dentist " and " dental surgeon " to qualified and registered practitioners.

* 1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

In 1878 the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that religious duty was not a suitable defense for practicing polygamy, and many Mormons went into hiding ; later, Congress began seizing church assets.

Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

After some other reworking, by 1878 there were 425 members in 13 temples in eight states, and by 1888, there were 7, 210 members in 48 temples in the United States and Canada.

In 1878, Disney's father Elias had moved from Huron County, Ontario, Canada to the United States at first seeking gold in California before finally settling down to farm with his parents near Ellis, Kansas, until 1884.

Russia preparing to let slip the " Dogs of War ," its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) | conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( United Kingdom | Britain ) warns Russia to take care.

* August 18 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

* April 25 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria ( d. 1878 )

Approximately 150 unauthorised productions of Pinafore sprang up in the United States in 1878 and 1879, and none of these paid royalties to the authors.

The University of Tennessee College of Dentistry was founded in 1878, making it the oldest dental college in the South, and the third oldest public college of dentistry in the United States.

The Russo-Turkish War ended the Ottoman control of Cyprus in 1878 when Cyprus was left under the control of the United Kingdom ; with its conditions set out in the Cyprus Convention, although sovereignty of the island continued to belong to the Ottoman Empire until the Kingdom annexed the island unilaterally in 1914, when it declared war against the Ottomans at the First World War.

In 1878, as the result of the Cyprus Convention, the United Kingdom took over the government of Cyprus as a protectorate from the Ottoman Empire.

He was made Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society in 1878, Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1892, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 1895 and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in 1895.

Category: 1878 in the United States

From 1878 to 1951, the area was the site of a coaling and repair station for the U. S. Navy, known then as United States Naval Station Tutuila.

In 1878 Harte was appointed to the position of United States Consul in the town of Krefeld, Germany and then to Glasgow in 1880.

The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (, original at ) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction.

Category: 1878 in the United States

Of " manna ", the ash-tree sugar, the standard 19th-century US pharmacopeia, The Dispensatory of the United States of America ( 14th edition, Philadelphia, 1878 ) said:

It was created in 1889 and was named for Fort Meade, which was garrisoned as a United States military post in the area in 1878 and was named for General George Meade.