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.

This began the Ten Years ' War, which lasted from 1868 to 1878, and eventually contributed to the abolition of slavery.

Lansing began to grow steadily over the next two decades with the completion of the railroads through the city, a plank road, and the completion of the current capitol building in 1878.

In 1878 the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that religious duty was not a suitable defense for practicing polygamy, and many Mormons went into hiding ; later, Congress began seizing church assets.

A 10-year internal war began in 1878 and resulted in a reduction of the population from 1, 400 ( 1843 ) to around 900 ( 1888 ).

Rutherford B. Hayes began in 1878 the first White House egg rolling for local children.

In 1878, the Ganz factory, Budapest, Hungary, began manufacturing equipment for electric lighting and, by 1883, had installed over fifty systems in Austria-Hungary.

After the success of Pinafore, Gilbert was eager to get started on the next opera, and he began working on the libretto in December 1878.

The cast began music rehearsals on 24 April, and at the beginning of May 1878, the two collaborators worked closely together at Sullivan's flat to finalise the piece.

Meanwhile, numerous pirated versions of Pinafore began playing in America with great success, beginning with a production in Boston that opened on 25 November 1878.

With Professor G. D. Living, one of his colleagues at Cambridge, he began in 1878 a long series of spectroscopic observations, the later of which were devoted to the spectroscopic examination of various gaseous elements separated from atmospheric air by the aid of low temperatures ; and he was joined by Professor J.

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 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.

In 1878 he played Grimaldi in Dion Boucicault's The Life of an Actress at the Globe Theatre ; shortly after, he began his professional career.

After receiving his law degree in 1878, Alfred Binet began to study science at the Sorbonne.

The Uvalde Umpire began publication in 1878 and the Hesparian in 1879.

The next year times began to look better, and by 1878 the population was 8, 954.

But it was not until the area was taken from the Ute and removed from the Ute Reservation by the Brunot Agreement of 1878 that large scale minerals exploration and mining began in the county, although the Pioneer Mining District was established ( illegally ) in 1876 in the Rico area.

Akutan began in 1878 as a fur storage and trading port for the Western Fur & Trading Company.

When the railroad came into McGehee in 1878 and continued south and southwest, people began to move into the area.

This rose out of revivals began in 1878 with the Methodist and Presbyterian churches.

In 1878 construction began on a new, more impressive county court house and clock tower.

An early settler, John Ellsworth, began farming here in 1878.

Building began September 20, 1878, and was completed and dedicated on January 30, 1879.

Reuben Archer Torrey began his ministerial career here in 1878.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

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 1878, Cantor published a construction that proves there are as many transcendental numbers as there are real numbers.

After the construction of a railroad bridge across the Vistula in 1878, Graudenz became a rapidly growing industrialized city as well as a district centre in 1900.

( Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway ) built a line running north to south through the county in 1876, which was followed by construction of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railway line east to west though the county from 1878 to 1881.

Unfortunately he died in 1878 before construction was completed.

Nearby stands the elegant and imposing monument to Samuel Turner ( 1805 – 1878 ), treasurer of the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity, built in 1879 and accidentally lost for the latter part of the 20th century during construction work before being found and restored in 1994.

" Garner's Station " was established with the construction of a post office in 1878, and the town of Garner's Station incorporated in 1883.

The U. S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.

Early on, Carrollton's livelihood was exclusively agricultural, but following the construction of the Dallas-Wichita Railroad through Trinity Mills in 1878, the community began to grow in its industrial significance.

The Quebec Hockey Club was founded in 1878, after the construction of the Quebec Skating Rink in 1877.

Prior to the construction of the first Tay Rail Bridge in 1878, a roll-on / roll-off railway ferry linked the Edinburgh to Aberdeen railway line between Tayport and Broughty Ferry, until the construction of the rail bridge made it redundant.

In 1878, construction of a settlement for workers was initiated, with schools, parks and churches.

The legislature also authorized a railroad right-of-way across the campus and a mill levy to raise money for construction of the campus ' first main building, Old Main, which was completed in December 1878.

Authority for the construction of these lines was granted in 1878 and they were opened for traffic in 1884.

The original building was opened on 2 September 1878 and cost £ 21, 698 11s, this included the construction of both roads and sewers.

The historic Como Hotel was constructed by the German railway workers in 1878, and was a German workers club for years throughout the duplication of nearby railway lines and construction of the dual rail bridge.

That, and the failure of the Annand and Hill governments to make progress on railway construction, led to the Liberal's defeat in the 1878 election after which Hill retired from politics.

Invented by Laroy S. Starrett in 1878, the combination square continues to be a commonplace tool in home workshops, construction jobsites and metalworking

The construction of the railway to Dandenong and Gippsland about 1 km south of Dandenong Road in 1878 prompted the start of a second township where the line crossed Clayton Road.

The station building is relatively unchanged since its 1878 construction, and still carries the grandeur that accompanied the railway schemes of the late 19th century.

From 1878 construction of the three forts in Walem, Lier and ( from 1882 ) Steendorp was started.

However the construction of the Sixth Avenue Elevated railway in 1878 had cast a literal and metaphorical shadow over the park, and by the 1930s the park had suffered neglect and was considered disreputable.