* 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs ; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

High-speed photography, Muybridge, 1878

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

Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

By 1878, spurred on by Stanford to expand the experiments, Muybridge had successfully photographed a horse at a trot ; lantern slides have survived of this later work.

Muybridge planned to take a series of photos on 15 June 1878 at Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm.

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion.

His entry was based on the work Laundromat Locomotion, in which he converted a row of 12 washing machines in a laundromat into a series of cameras triggered by trip wires, and then rode a horse through the laundromat to recreate Eadweard Muybridge ’ s The Horse in Motion ( 1878 ).

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.

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.

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.

Chapter VIII ( Miracula Mundi ) contains the following, the only reference by an ancient writer to the famous sculptures of the Pergamon Altar, which were discovered in 1871, excavated in 1878, and are now in Berlin:

In 1878, under the auspices of the holding company, he hired the famous explorer Henry Stanley to establish a colony in the Congo region.

Anna Sewell ( 1820 – 1878 ), famous as the author of Black Beauty, was born in a 17th century house in Church Plain.

However, they became famous only after the limestone hills were recorded by colonial authorities including Daly and Syers as well as American Naturalist, William Hornaday in 1878.

Architecturally designed after the tiny country church at Knock, Ireland ( which became famous when the miraculous apparition of Our Lady of Knock appeared there in 1878 ), St. Kieran's was rumored to be one of Bishop Neumann's favored parishes.

He opposed famous Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup ( 1802 – 1878 ), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control of women ’ s education.

The historical district includes the famous Körner ’ s Folly built 1878 – 1880, and the Harmon House.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

His most famous poems were " Corn " ( 1875 ), " The Symphony " ( 1875 ), " Centennial Meditation " ( 1876 ), " The Song of the Chattahoochee " ( 1877 ), " The Marshes of Glynn " ( 1878 ), and " Sunrise " ( 1881 ).

The son of an ashigaru of the Kaga domain, he was famous as the lead assassin of the powerful politician Ōkubo Toshimichi on May 14, 1878.

* A famous depiction of women in the Victorian workhouse – ' A scene in the Westminster Union, 1878 '

A famous historical example of the destructive power of grain explosions is the 1878 explosion of the Washburn " A " Mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which killed eighteen, leveled two nearby mills, damaged many others and caused a destructive fire that gutted much of the nearby milling district.

Bomb lance whaling harpoon, pictured in 1878, prominent in the famous whaling legal case, Ghen v. Rich

He became famous, through his Ciencia española ( 1878 ), a collection of polemical essays defending the national tradition against the attacks of political and religious reformers.

By an arrangement with the city of Boston, the Arnold Arboretum became part of the famous " Emerald Necklace ", the long network of parks and parkways that Frederick Law Olmsted laid out for the Boston Parks Department between 1878 and 1892.

His most famous work is Bitwa pod Grunwaldem ( Battle of Grunwald ) ( 1878 ) depicting the 1410 Polish and Lithuanian victory over the Teutonic Knights ; a painting showing " clearly nationalist endeavour " which garnered it international acclaim as " an unrivaled icon of Polish nationalism ".

Fartown Ground, is a sports ground located in the Huddersfield suburb of Fartown in West Yorkshire, England and is predominantly famous for being the home ground of Hudderfield Rugby League Club from 1878 to 1992.

His achievements in the field of postal services far outweigh this pedantic purism and it was his proposal to have the Siemens company manufacture telephones which led to the development of an entirely new business segment for the famous German company in 1878.

In 1878, James W. Beardsley, a wealthy farmer, donated over of hilly, rural land bordering on the Pequonnock River with a distant view of Long Island Sound to the city of Bridgeport on condition that " the city shall accept and keep the same forever as a public park ...." In 1881, the city contracted Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for creating New York City's Central Park, to create a design for Beardsley Park.

The parish was the birthplace of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club which was established in 1878 and later became the world famous Manchester United.

Pieter Bleeker ( July 10, 1819, Zaandam – January 24, 1878, The Hague ) was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fish of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862 – 1877.

He and his wife Marguerite lived in the famous French castle Château de Chenonceau from 1864 until his death in 1867 ; she continued to inhabit it until at least 1878.

His most famous works include Os Maias ( The Maias ) ( 1878 ), O Crime do Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 1876 ) and O Primo Bazilio ( Cousin Basílio ) ( 1878 ).