The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the Museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes.

In 1878, the people of Ocean View and the area around the University campus, together with local farmers, incorporated themselves as the Town of Berkeley.

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.

Between 1877 and 1878, Oscar Hertwig published several studies on the fertilization of sea urchin eggs, showing that the nucleus of the sperm enters the oocyte and fuses with its nucleus.

Pregnant with her second child, she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878.

After tension between Russia and Britain in Europe ended with the June 1878 Congress of Berlin, Russia turned its attention to Central Asia.

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

When his grandmother died in 1878, the two brothers were reunited with their father in Paris, who remarried ( a piano teacher ) shortly afterwards.

He exhibited work in 1878 in Paris, where he came into contact with Auguste Rodin and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

* 1878: Zamenhof celebrates the completion of his universal language project, Lingwe Uniwersala, with high-school friends.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

Due to his mother's business commitments, Gustave spent his childhood living with his grandmother, but nevertheless remained close to his mother, who was to remain an influential figure until her death in 1878.

* Galatea, the main figure depicted with Pygmalion in Pygmalion and the Image, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

Pinafore ( 1878 ), satirising the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority and poking good-natured fun at the Royal Navy and the English obsession with social status ( building on a theme introduced in The Sorcerer, love between members of different social classes ).

The Catholic anti-liberalism was led by Pope Pius IX ; his death in 1878 allowed Bismarck to open negotiations with Pope Leo XIII, and led to the abandonment of the Kulturkampf in stages in the early 1880s.

In 1877 – 1878, Russia fought a victorious war with the Ottoman Empire and attempted to impose the Treaty of San Stefano on it.

A culmination of the Albanian National Awakening were the League of Prizren ( 1878 – 1881, with the backing of sultan Abdulhamid II ) and the League of Peja, but they were unsuccessful to an Albanian independence, which occurred only in 1912, through the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

Alphonse Floristan Picou ( October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961 ) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.

* Alphonse Magnien ( 1837 – 1902 ), the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902

* Alphonse Mingana ( 1878 – 1937 ), an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest

* Alphonse Picou ( 1878 – 1961 ), an American early jazz clarinetist

His studies continued for a short time in Paris in 1875 with François Bonvin before returning to Lille where, in 1878, he enrolled at the Écoles Académiques de Dessin et d ' Architecture, studying for three years in the studio of Alphonse Colas.

The seminary's influence increased in the late 19th century under the leadership of Alphonse Magnien, who served as superior from 1878 to 1902.

* Alphonse Mingana ( 1878 – 1937 )

He was a pupil at the École des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École des Hautes Études ; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine ( 1878 ), at Fontainebleau ( 1884 ), and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885.

During the latter part of the 19th century and in the 20th century, other Grandes écoles were established so as to further develop education in newer fields of sciences and technologies, including École nationale supérieure des télécommunications ( 1878 ), Hautes Études Commerciales ( 1881 ), École supérieure d ' électricité ( 1894 ) and Supaero ( 1909 ).

A portion of the material accumulated by himself and his colleague was embodied in two magnificent works published after his death the Notes algologiques ( 1876 – 1880 ), and Études phycologiques ( 1878 ).

Publications .--- Vues illustratives de quelques phenomenes geologiques, prises sur le Vesuve et l ' Etna, pendant les annees 1833 et 1834 ( Berlin, 1836 ); Ueber die Natur und den Zusammenhang der vulcanischen Bildungen ( Brunswick, 1841 ); Geologische Forschungen in den Kaukasischen Ländern ( 3 vols., Vienna, 1878, 1882, and 1887 ).

His most ambitious canvases are Springtime ( 1857 ), in the Louvre ; Borde de la Cure, Morvan ( 1864 ); Villerville sur Mer ( 1864 ); Moonlight ( 1865 ); Auvers-sur-Oise ( 1868 ); and Return of the Flock ( 1878 ).

* E. Vignes ; Étude technique sur le chemin de fer Festiniog, 1878, English translation by Don Boreham 1986

* Étude sur l ' administration féodale dans le Languedoc ( 900-1250 ), 1878

Pictet is the author of Mémoire sur la liquéfaction de l ' oxygène, la liquéfaction et la solidifaction de l ' hydrogène et sur les théories des changements des corps ( 1878 ); Synthèse de la chaleur ( 1879 ); Nouvelles machines frigorifiques basées sur l ' emploi de phénomènen physicochimiques ( 1895 ); Etude critique du matérialisme et du spiritualisme par la physique expérimentale ( 1896 ); L ' Acétylène ( 1896 ); Le carbide ( 1896 ); Zur mechanischen Theorie der Explosivstoffe ( 1902 ); Die Theorie der Apparate zur Herstellung flüssiger Luft mit Entspannung ( 1903 ).

* Pélagaud, Etude sur Celse ( 1878 )

Menier was the author of several works on fiscal and economic questions, notably L ' impôt sur le capital ( 1872 ), La Réforme fiscale ( 1872 ), Economie rurale ( 1875 ), L ' Avenir économique ( 1875-1878 ), Atlas de la production de la richesse ( 1878 ) and, published in the English language by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City in 1878, France And The United States: Their Present Commercial Relations Considered With Reference to a Treaty of Reciprocity ( downloadable )

* Dans les nuages, Impressions d ' une chaise ( 1878 )

In La Question d ' Orient au XVIII ' siècle, les origines de la triple alliance ( 1878 ), he shows how the partition of Poland on the one hand reversed the traditional policy of France in eastern Europe, and on the other hand contributed towards the salvation of republican France in 1793.

Eine real-monistische Weltanschauung ( 1878 ), Auguste Blanqui, L ' éternité par les astres ( 1872 ) and Gustave Le Bon, L ' homme et les sociétés ( 1881 ).

* Les Enchainements du monde animal dans les termes géologiques ( Mammifères Tertiaires, 1878 ; Fossiles primaires, 1883 ; Fossiles secondaires, 1890 )

fr: 1878 dans les chemins de fer

* La Méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales ( 1878 ) ( Text on line )

* Atlas de toutes les étoiles visibles à l ' oeil nu, formé d ' après l ' observation directe, dans les deux hémisphères ( Atlas of All Stars Visible To the Naked Eye, Developed From Direct Observation in Two Hemispheres / Mons, Belgium, Hector Manceaux, 1878 )

In 1878 he followed his thesis with a study called Les Cours royales dans les Îles normandes.

His La Femme en France au XIX < sup > e </ sup > siècle ( 1864 ), reissued, much enlarged, in 1878 ; his Messieurs les enfants ( 1868 ), his Conférences Parisiennes ( 1872 ), his Nos filles et nos fils ( 1877 ), and his Une Éducation de jeune fille ( 1884 ) were works of wide-reaching influence in the moral order.

On his return, he published La Russie épique, a study of the heroic songs ( 1876 ), a short but excellent Histoire de la Russie depuis les origines jusqu ' à l ' année 1877 ( 1878 ; 5th ed., 1900 ), Français et Russes, Moscou et Sévastopol 1812 – 1854 ( 1876 ; 2nd ed., 1881 ), and finally the two important volumes on Russian diplomatic history in the Recueil des Instructions données aux ambassadeurs ( vols.