* Malleson, George Bruce ( 1879 ) History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 W. H.

#* Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat ( 16 May 1803 – 10 April 1878 ), married Caroline Georgina Fraser ( 1810 – 1879 ).

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.

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.

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.

He is best known for his book Twenty-one Days in India ( 1878 – 1879 ), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought.

Although he had received permission in 1876 to continue excavation, Schliemann did not reopen the dig site at Troy until 1878 – 1879, after another excavation in Ithaca designed to locate an actual site mentioned in the Odyssey.

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* 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette ( 1878 ) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ( see names ) ( 23 February 1879, previously 1878: see below15 May 1935 ) was a Russian painter and art theoretician.

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Following the 1878 season, Grace was assigned to Westminster Hospital for his final year of medical practice and this curtailed his cricket for a time as he did not play in the 1879 season until June.

* July 22 – Janusz Korczak ( pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit ), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist ( born 1878 or 1879 ) ( d. 1942 )

The Opera Comique was obliged to close for drain and sewer repairs, and was renovated and redecorated by E. W. Bradwell, from Christmas 1878 to the end of January 1879.

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.

They met in 1878 or 1879 when Seraphima went to St. Petersburg to study at the Pedagogical Institute.

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.

Seurat attended the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879.

* 7-R. Wyndham Walden ( 1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1888 )

* 5-George L. Lorillard ( 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 )

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 009. jpg | Stage Rehearsal, 1878 – 1879, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

When, under the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became an autonomous principality under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, the Tsar recommended his nephew to the Bulgarians as a candidate for the newly-created throne, and the Grand National Assembly unanimously elected Prince Alexander as Prince of Bulgaria ( 29 April 1879 ).

* Jean François Mussel ( 1878 – 1879 )

Unlike many Liberals, Chamberlain's was not an anti-imperialist, for although he berated the government for its Eastern policy, the Second Afghan War of 1878 and the Zulu War of 1879, he had supported Disraeli's purchase of Suez Canal Company shares in November 1875.

These Lambeth Conferences have been held roughly every 10 years since 1878 ( the second such conference ) and remain the most visible coming-together of the whole Communion.

From the 1830s until his death in 1878, Cullen held several key positions near the top of the Irish hierarchy and influenced Rome's appointment of Irish bishops on four continents.

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.

And the Iron Crown at Monza has remained there permanently, with two exceptions: in 1878, when, in Rome, it was placed on the coffin of Vittorio Emanuele II and during the two world wars when it was held in the Vatican.

After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera ( Hofoper ).

Victor Emanuel II ( Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso ; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878 ) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

The house was used for manorial courts throughout the 19th century until the last was held in 1878.

The origin of the name " Notting Hill " is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called " Knotting-Bernes ,", " Knutting-Barnes ," or " Nutting-barns ", and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that " the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster.

Others joined his Christian Mission, and on 7 August 1878 the Salvation Army was formed at a meeting held at 272 Whitechapel Road .< ref >< cite > 1878 Foundation Deed Of The Salvation Army accessed 15 February 2007 </ cite ></ ref > A statue commemorates both his mission and his work in helping the poor.

It was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 19, 1878, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier.

The election held on December 10, 1878 was a close one.

When he was defeated in 1878, the president appointed him as United States marshal for Massachusetts, a post he held from 1879 until 1888.

As early as 13 July 1878 a meeting was held at Marlborough House, London under the presidency of the Prince of Wales, " for the purpose of taking into consideration the advancement of the art of music, and establishing a college of music on a permanent and more extended basis than that of any existing institution.

In 1878 the Choral Society held its first student participation outside Scandinavia bringing Norwegian music and texts to Paris, this being a way to " export " and show Norwegian culture.

In 1878 he was appointed to succeed Edwin Palmer in the professorship of Latin, and held the post till his death.

For many years after this he held the post of Old Catholic curé of Bonn, as well as the position of vicar-general to the Old Catholic Bishop Reinkens, but resigned both in 1878, when, with Döllinger, he disapproved of the permission to marry granted by the Old Catholic Church in Germany to its clergy.

* The 1878 Bret Harte poem The Spelling Bee at Angels describes a spelling contest held at a California gold mining camp.

What may be the last witchcraft trial in North America was held in Ipswich in 1878.

Walther served as its first president, a position he held from 1847 to 1850 and again from 1864 to 1878.

Jorge Ubico y Castañeda ( 10 November 1878 – 14 June 1946 ) was a Guatemalan dictator who held the title of President of Guatemala from 14 February 1931 to 4 July 1944.

St. Moritz developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century and the first electric light in Switzerland was installed in 1878 at the Kulm Hotel and the first curling tournament on the continent held in 1880.

By necessity, he returned to office in 1878 and continued to 1881, when he was made professor emeritus of physics and geology, which position he had held while he was president.