A General Conference of the church in 1878 approved a resolution that declared that the revelations of the Prophet – President Joseph Smith III had equal standing to those previously included in the work.

* 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, British writer and occultist ( d. 1951 )

* Richard Shore Smith ( c. 1878 – 1953 ), American football player and coach

An early example of the former was the use of the word ' Aotearoa ' to mean New Zealand in the 1878 translation of The National Anthem by Judge Thomas H Smith of the Native Land Court, the translation still used today.

The bridge was built in 1878 by John Smith and Samuel Stauffer at a cost of $ 2, 410.

* 1878 Bavaria-born Heinrich Schmidtt, aka Henry “ Hank ” Clay Smith, and his wife Elizabeth Boyle and their six children, become the first permanent settlers in the area, where Hank is active in the county ’ s organization.

* William E. Smith ( 1824 – 1883 ), Governor of Wisconsin ( 1878 – 1882 )

* William L. Smith ( barber ) ( 1878 –?

* William Lyman Smith ( 1878 –?

( Aside from the fact that the office would later become the Soldier Post office, it was actually 1 mile north and < sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 4 </ sub > mile east of the current city limits before being moved there in late 1878 ) The name was derived from the settler ( Smith, of Nemaha County ) who sold the land to William Cline for the purpose of providing the area with a post office.

Judge Smith was the first postmaster when the post office was established in 1878.

* George Girdler Smith ( 1795 – 1878 ), engraver in Boston, Massachusetts

Pamela Colman Smith ( 16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951 ), also nicknamed Pixie, was an artist, illustrator, and writer.

Smith joined the Royal Navy and underwent training in Britannia at Dartmouth from the age of twelve and was appointed acting sub-lieutenant in 1878.

The Birds of Guernsey ( 1878 ) by Cecil Smith states likewise.

* Smith, Mary Rebecca Darby., 1878: Recollections of two distinguished persons: la Marquise de Boissy and the Count de Waldeck.

In 1878, Board of Aid president Franklin Webster Smith and an agent with the new Cincinnati Southern Railway, Cyrus Clarke, were travelling on the railroad's new tracks along the Cumberland Plateau when they identified the future site of Rugby, and were impressed with its virgin forests, clear air, and scenic gorges.

Pamela Colman Smith ( 1878 — 1951 ), artist, illustrator, and writer, best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of divinatory tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite, lived in Bude, and died here on 18 September 1951.

* Sir Smith, William ( 1878 ) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Abacaenum-Hytanis London

* Robert Hardy Smith ( 1813 – 1878 ), Alabama politician

* Robert Smith ( British Columbia politician ), Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of British Columbia, 1871 – 1878

* Fred Smith ( 1900s pitcher ) ( 1878 – 1964 ), former MLB pitcher

** Rhoda Ann Smith ( 20 July 1878 – 6 July 1879 )

** Alfred Jason Smith ( 13 December 1876 – 6 April 1878 )

In 1878 Roberts married Sarah Louisa Smith ( they eventually had seven children ), and in the same year he graduated first in his class from University of Deseret, the normal school precursor of the University of Utah.

In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.

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.

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.

Accrington became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1878.

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.

After her husband ( Ernest Hoschedé ) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, and after the death of Camille Monet in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil ; Alice Hoschedé ( 1844-1911 ), helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children.

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.

Glasnevin became a township in 1878 and became part of the City of Dublin in 1900 under the Dublin Boundaries Act when it received the Royal Assent on August 6 1900.

In 1878, despite opposition, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy was restored to the country, and Catholicism became a significant denomination within Scotland.

In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; from 1878 to 1891 he was president of the Royal Historical Society ; and in 1881 he became president of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Girls ' Day School Trust.

The first postwar elections were held in 1948 ( women were given the franchise for the first time in 1947 ), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru ( 1878 – 1967 ), became prime minister.

In 1878 he became assistant secretary of state in the Hayes administration.

The question of Az Zubarah became moot in 1878, however, when Jassim bin Mohammed and his brother Ahmed bin Muhammed destroyed the town as punishment for the piracy of the Naim, a tribe that resided in the north of Qatar but was loyal to the sheikh of Bahrain.

It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in use on electronic keyboards due to the network effect of a standard layout and a belief that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantages.

The QWERTY layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters, via a shift key.

After the first commercial telephone exchange was installed in 1878, the need for an automated, user-controlled method of directing a telephone call became apparent.

On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

Agnes became pregnant again at this time and their third child Bessie ( 1878 – 98 ) was born in May 1878.

The idea of swallow hibernation became so well established that, even as late as in 1878, Elliott Coues could list as many as 182 contemporary publications dealing with the hibernation of swallows and little published evidence to contradict the theory.

The main port, Walvis Bay, and the Penguin islands had been annexed by Britain as part of the Cape Colony in 1878, and became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

Sofia was taken by Russian forces on January 4, 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78, and became the capital of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria in 1879, which became the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1908.

In 1878, the University set another first when it became the first university in the UK to admit women on equal terms with men.