In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

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.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

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.

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

On 11 September 1878 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 268 coal miners.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

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.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.

It was established in 1878, two years after the Diocese of Truro was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

* Saint Petrock Royal Arch Chapter No. 330 was consecrated on the 11 April 1878, it currently meets on the third Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September & November

The Bronze Star Medal was designed by Rudolf Freund ( 1878 – 1960 ) of jewelry firm Bailey, Banks & Biddle.

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.

The first Cuban labour organisation, the Cigar Makers Guild, was created in 1878, followed by the Central Board of Artisans in 1879, and many more across the island.

They had a second son, Michel, on 17 March 1878, ( Jean was born in 1867 ).

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

Falls of Clyde is a well-preserved example of a more conservatively designed, slower contemporary of the clippers, which was built for general freight in 1878.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

He was the author of several works, the most important being The Principles and Practice of Surgery ( 1878 – 1883 ).

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

In 1878, Guðbrandur Vigfússon made the connection between Beowulf and the Grettis saga.

He moved to England in 1878 where he was made a full member of the Royal Academy in 1898.

Knowing she was severely ill, in 1878 Dorsey made over her will, leaving Beauvoir and her financial assets to Jefferson Davis and, in the case of his death, to his only surviving child, Winnie Davis.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

Between 1866 and 1878 no reliable observations of the hypothetical planet were made.

Gilbert made an effort to write an amusing part for her despite Sullivan's reluctance to use her, but by mid-May 1878, both Gilbert and Sullivan wanted her out of the cast ; unhappy with the role, she left.

The first of these, opening at the Boston Museum on 25 November 1878, made such a splash that the piece was quickly produced in major cities and on tour by dozens of companies throughout the country.

* c. 1895 – 1878 BC: " Pectoral of Senwosret II ", from the tomb of princess Sithathoryunet at el-Lahun was made.

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.

* 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge made a high-speed photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system.

In 1878 the fund began providing artificial limbs made by craftsmen from the carriage and wagon works, and nine years later opened its first dental surgery.

In 1878, Muybridge made a famous 13-part 360 ° photographic panorama of San Francisco, to be presented to the wife of Leland Stanford.

For the next six years, he performed mainly on tour in the British provinces, playing character roles, although he made his London debut late in 1878 at the Olympic Theatre under the management of Henry Neville.

In 1878 a committee of the House of Commons endorsed this view and made recommendations as to how the task should be performed.

Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878, when Henry Wells, an African American with some criminal history was arrested and locked in the garett of the new building, which had been erected in 1877.

In 1878 Farmington was made a charge.

Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878 when Henry Wells, an African American with a criminal history, was arrested and locked in the garret of the new building.

& W. Railroad had not made its way across southern Randolph County, in 1878.

However, Settlemier did not default and eventually his case made it to the United States Supreme Court in Settlemier v. Sullivan, 97 U. S. 444 ( 1878 ), and he retained the land.

Most significant to the development of the player piano was the Aeolian Company, founded as the Mechanical Orguinette Company in 1878, initially as retailer of small reed organs made by the Munroe Organ Company and others.

But Della Chiesa's association with Rampolla, the architect of Pope Leo XIII's ( 1878 – 1903 ) foreign policy, made his position in the Secretariat of State under the new pontificate somewhat uncomfortable.

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 ).

The religion's doctrines surrounding 1914 are the legacy of a series of emphatic claims regarding the years 1799, 1874, 1878, 1914, 1918 and 1925 made in the Watch Tower Society's publications between 1879 and 1924.

In the 1920s, economists such as Paul Nystrom ( 1878 – 1969 ), proposed that changes in the style of life, made feasible by the economics of the industrial age, had induced to the mass of society a “ philosophy of futility ” that would increase the consumption of goods and services as a social fashion ; an activity done for its own sake.

In 1866, he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon for Schlafendes Mädchen im Walde ( 1865 ) und Schreibunterricht ( 1865 ); in 1878 he was made a knight of the Légion d ' honneur.