On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

Towards the end of 1878 a young workman of Tarragona, Juan Oliva Moncasi, fired at the king in Madrid.

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 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.

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.

Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his " Lydian " city of the sixth stratum.

Disraeli scored another diplomatic success at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in preventing Bulgaria from gaining full independence, limiting the growing influence of Russia in the Balkans and breaking up the League of the Three Emperors.

The old Herald headquarters at 255 Washington Street ( built 1878 )

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

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

The Baudot apparatus was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle ( 1878 ) and won him the Exposition's gold medal, as well as bringing his system to worldwide notice.

In 1878, Essendon played in the first match on what would be considered by modern standards to be a full-sized field at Flemington Hill.

In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school ( still called City and Guilds college ) at Imperial College London.

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 ).

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.

Translated into English Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns ( 1878 ) ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010.

* 1878 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Andrássy ( in blue uniform centre ) at the Congress of Berlin, 1878

He died of yellow fever at age 21 on October 16, 1878, during an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley that caused 20, 000 deaths.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

A tablet at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, dating to 50 AD, was sent from Nazareth to Paris in 1878.

The Waal was bridged in 1878 by a rail bridge and in 1936 by a car bridge, which was claimed to be Europe's biggest bridge at the time.

In the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, Romania was recognized as an independent state by the Great Powers .< ref > In return, Romania ceded three southern districts of Bessarabia to Russia " in exchange " for the access to the ports at the Black Sea and acquired Dobruja.

Despite political complications that arose from time to time ( such as an ill-fated scheme by the British Colonial Office to enforce a confederation in Southern Africa in 1878, and tensions with the Afrikaner-dominated Government of Transvaal over trade and railroad construction ), economic and social progress in the Cape Colony continued at a steady pace until the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Wars in 1899.

In the autumn of 1878, at the age of 20, Emmeline Goulden met and began a courtship with Richard Pankhurst, a barrister who had advocated women's suffrage – and other causes, including freedom of speech and education reform – for years.

By age 13 in 1878 after receiving a few years of local schooling, Sun went to live with his elder brother, Sun Mei ( 孫眉 ) in Honolulu.

In 1878, at the age of 16, he enrolled at the Imperial Alexander University of Helsinki.

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.

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.

Under considerable pressure from his senpai ( 先輩, a term for senior peers ), Uchimura signed the Covenant during his first year at the College at the age of 16 and went on to receive baptism from a Methodist missionary in 1878.

Gustave Caillebotte, about age 30, c. 1878

The young pianist Ernesto Nazareth published his first choro ( Não Caio Noutra ) in 1878 at the age of 14.

In 1878 at the age of 20, Chesnutt married Susan Perry and they moved to New York City.

In 1878, nearing the age of 40, Muir ’ s friends " pressured him to return to society.

He was subsequently sworn-in during a ceremony in the Senate chamber on January 22, of the following year, making him the first ever governor general from Manitoba, and, at the age of 43, the third youngest ever appointed, after the Marquess of Lorne in 1878 ( 33 years old ), and the Marquess of Lansdowne in 1883 ( 38 years old ).

A streptococcal infection of the throat killed Gideon Welles at the age of seventy-five on February 12, 1878.

After retirement, Josif moved to Novi Sad where he died at the age of 57 on 2 February 1878 and was buried at the Serbian Orthodox Ascension Cemetery ( Uspensko groblje ).

He died of yellow fever at age 21 on October 16, 1878, during an epidemic in the Mississippi River Valley that caused 20, 000 deaths.

In 1878, he was enlisted at the Marchian Folescu School, where, as he took pride in noting, he excelled in most areas, discovering a love for intellectual pursuits and, by age nine, even being allowed by his teachers to lecture his schoolmates in Romanian history.

If West's age in that episode was equal to that of the actor who played him, the events depicted are 87 years before the episode was shot, i. e. in 1879 or 1878.

Franz Karl at age 76, 1878

He re-established himself in Argentina in 1878, but harsh disagreement with Bartolomé Mitre pushed Alberdi to leave for France, where, at the age of seventy-three, he died on July 19, 1884, in a suburb of Paris.

On January 12, 1847, after moving to Washington, DC, the widower Schoolcraft married again at age 53, to Mary Howard ( died March 12, 1878 ), a southern slaveholder from an elite planter family of the Beaufort district of South Carolina.

He died at age 82 in 1878.

Gaunt was born in Beechworth in Victoria, the son of William Henry Gaunt and Elizabeth Mary Palmer, Gaunt joined the Royal Navy in 1878 at the age of 13.

He died in 1878 at age 59, in Rome.

* Alfred Bird-inventor of egg-free custard and baking powder, ( d 18 December 1878, age 67 ), ( plot 164. H )