Before 1878 the silver Russian ruble was valued so highly as to drive the native coins out of circulation.

Chase traveled to Venice, Italy in 1877 with Duveneck and John Henry Twachtman before returning to the United States in the summer of 1878, a highly skilled artist representing the new wave of European-educated American talent.

The second was described by Antonin Fritsch in 1878 as a species of Iguanodon ( Iguanodon exogirarum, later amended to exogyrarum ), and is a highly doubtful dinosaurian-like bit of bone ( possibly an internal cast of a tibia ) from the Cenomanian ( Late Cretaceous ) of the Czech Republic.

From 1874 to 1878 he commanded an infantry regiment at Spandau, after which he was made chief of staff of the Guard Corps, a highly prestigious position.

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.

Late in the century, Gustav Mahler wrote his early Das klagende Lied on his own words, between 1878 and 1880, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor created a successful trilogy of cantatas The Song of Hiawatha between 1898 and 1900.

In late August 1878, Sullivan used some of the Pinafore music, arranged by his assistant Hamilton Clarke, during several successful promenade concerts at Covent Garden that generated interest and stimulated ticket sales.

Five years later, a second attempt was successful, and the settlement incorporated as a city in 1878.

Cui's more successful stage works during his lifetime were the one-act comic opera The Mandarin's Son ( publicly premiered in 1878 ), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus ( 1883 ), based on Pushkin, and the one-act Mademoiselle Fifi ( 1903 ), based on Guy de Maupassant.

* A successful novel, Auch Einer ( 1878 ; 25th ed., 1904 )

Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, including Les cloches de Corneville ( 1878 ), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time, and Rip Van Winkle ( 1882 ), which earned international fame.

It opened in Paris in 1877, running for an extremely successful 480 performances, and then enjoyed an astonishing London run, beginning in 1878, of a record-breaking 708 performances.

* Marshall Keeble ( 1878 – 1969 ) His successful preaching career notably bridged a racial divide in the Restoration Movement prior to the American Civil Rights Movement.

This was not Winchester's first bolt rifle ( that distinction belonged to the Winchester-Hotchkiss rifle of 1878 ), but it was by far their most successful to date.

Conrad Martens ( 1801 – 1878 ) worked from 1835 to 1878 as a professional artist, painting many landscapes and was commercially successful.

Nonetheless Zukertort was one of the most successful tournament players of his time: third place behind Steinitz and Blackburne at London, 1872 ; first place at Cologne and second at Leipzig in 1877 ; tied for first with Simon Winawer at the Paris International Chess Congress in 1878 and beat Winawer in the playoff ; second at Berlin in 1881, behind Blackburne ; tied for fourth at Vienna in 1882 ; first at London in 1883, 3 points ahead of Steinitz.

The Paris Exposition of 1878 presented Yablochkov with the unique opportunity to make a spectacular demonstration for a world audience, and through the promotional efforts of Gramme was successful in having 64 of his arc lights installed along the half mile length of Avenue de l ' Opéra, Place du Theatre Francais ( today Place André-Malraux ) and around the Place de l ' Opéra.

Davis resigned as Premier in 1878, and subsequently became a successful businessman in Chicago.

After the 1876 Presidential election, Bristow returned to private practice in New York forming a successful law practice in 1878, often argueing cases before the U. S. Supreme Court until his death in 1896.

A Confederate Army veteran, Buchanan moved to Rutherford County in 1878, where he operated a successful farm.

Gloucester Rugby Football Club had a successful run in the coming seasons, playing 15 games in both the 1877 – 78 and 1878 – 79 seasons, winning 10, losing 2 and drawing 3 both times.

The first successful oil tanker, the Zoroaster, was built in 1878 in Sweden, designed by Ludvig Nobel.

Among his works are Kapital und Arbeit ( 1865 ); Der Wert des Lebens ( 1865 ); Naturliche Dialektik ( 1865 ); Kritische Geschichte der Philosophie ( 1869 ); Kritische Geschichte der allgemeinen Principien der Mechanik ( 1872 ), one of his most successful works ; Kursus der National und Sozialokonomie ( 1873 ); Kursus der Philosophie ( 1875 ), entitled in a later edition Wirklichkeitsphilosophie ; Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie ( 1878 ); and Der Ersatz der Religion durch Vollkommeneres ( 1883 ).

Norwood eventually won 11 ' pennants ' between 1878 and 1899 and was the most successful team of the 1800s.

Townsend Harris ( October 3, 1804 – February 25, 1878 ) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan.

Petipa and Minkus created a successful series of original works and revivals throughout the 1870s: La Camargo in 1872, Offenbach's Le Papillon in 1874, Les Brigands ( The Bandits ) in 1875, Les Aventures de Pélée ( The Adventures of Peleus ) in 1876, Roxana in 1878, La Fille des Neiges ( The Daughter of the Snows ) in 1879, and Mlada, also in 1879.

The Provost and Burgesses of the existing Burgh of Hamilton, alarmed at the prospect of one ( or possibly both ) petitions being successful and thus creating a heavily industrialised, modern and vibrant western rival in turn petitioned the Parliament of the United Kingdom giving rise to the Burgh of Hamilton Act 1878.

*" The abuse of charity in London: the case of the five Royal Hospitals " ( 1878 )

* An 1878 British pantomime version was The Forty Thieves.

Illustration of the Harlequinade in The Forty Thieves ( 1878 ), showing Swell, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Columbine ( above ), Clown and Policeman

Dozens of works followed in the 1870s, including Poll and Partner Joe ( 1871 ), The Miller and His Man ( 1873 ; " a Christmas drawing room extravaganza " with songs by Arthur Sullivan ), Artful Cards ( 1877 ), Proof ( 1878 ), Dora and Diplunacy ( 1878, a burlesque of Clement Scott's Diplomacy, an adaptation of Sardou's Dora ), The Forty Thieves ( 1878 ), Our Club ( 1878 ) and another frequently revived hit, Betsy ( 1879 ).

In 1878, the people of Ocean View and the area around the University campus, together with local farmers, incorporated themselves as the Town of Berkeley.

In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

In 1878 James wrote: " Large as Balzac is, he is all of one piece and he hangs perfectly together.

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.

In the summer of 1878, as an assistant marshal in Dodge City, Kansas, Wyatt Earp and Policeman James Masterson, together with several citizens, fired their pistols at several cowboys who were fleeing town after shooting up a theater.

However, there was a Mr. Cone who together with his partner a Mr. Houghton had purchased a proved homestead in what is now Page Springs from Benjamin Coppel in 1878, farmed a year and then rented the property to a family from Arkansas.

Strauss married the singer Henrietta Treffz in 1862, and they remained together until her death in 1878.

Tōgō studied naval science for seven years in England as an apprentice officer, from 1871 to 1878, together with sixteen ( or eleven?

He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus ( 4th ed., 1883 ); Rhetores Latini minores ( 1863 ); Quintilian ( 1868 ); Sulpicius Severus ( 1866 ); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore ( 1867 ); Salvianus ( 1877 ) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae ( 1878 ).

His only notable publications were a masterly essay in the Quarterly Review of January 1878 on " Democracy in Europe ;" two lectures delivered at Bridgnorth in 1877 on " The History of Freedom in Antiquity " and " The History of Freedom in Christianity " — these last the only tangible portions put together by him of his long-projected " History of Liberty ;" and an essay on modern German historians in the first number of the English Historical Review, which he helped to found ( 1886 ).

The dean's chief published works are a Life of St Anselm ( 1870 ), the lives of Spenser ( 1879 ) and Bacon ( 1884 ) in Macmillan's " Men of Letters " series, an Essay on Dante ( 1878 ), The Oxford Movement ( 1891 ), together with many other volumes of essays and sermons.

In 1878 Tulcea was eventually awarded to Romania, together with the Northern Dobruja ( see Congress of Berlin ).

On March 19, 1878, he married his employer's daughter, Frances Lillian Clelland, and the couple eventually had four children together ( James, Clellan, Cora May, and Jessie Anne ).

They fought US forces together in 1878 in the Bannock War.

These congregations were the culmination of Warner's desire for non-sectarian Holiness congregations, of which he had dreamed of since January 31, 1878 when he noted in his diary: " On the 31st of last January the Lord showed me that holiness could never prosper upon sectarian soil encumbered by human creeds and party names, and he gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living God.

In 1878 he wrote The Student's Manual of Artistic Anatomy, with 25 plates of the bones and surface muscles of the human figure, together with a description of the origin, insertion and use of the muscles, and in 1882 wrote A Handbook for Painters and Art Students about the character, nature and use of colours, their permanent or fugitive qualities and the proper vehicles to employ, also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours, and wrote two other books.

Between 1878 and 1884 the two artists often painted landscapes together, once spending a month roaming the Aix countryside.

Jan Matejko's enormous Battle of Grunwald ( 1878 ) reflects Pan-Slav sentiment, showing various Slav forces joining together to smash the power of the Teutonic Knights.

They would go on to build 223 locomotives together, until Arthur Bell died in May 1878.

* Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, The Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber: together with A Graphic Account of His Capture and Death, published 1878.

The two were permanently re-merged in 1878, together with part of the Magdalen trust, to form the Hastings Grammar School Foundation.

At the beginning of the Second Afghan War in 1878, the Guides Infantry, together with the 1st Sikh Infantry, PFF, took part in forcing the Khyber, and were prominent in seizing the fortress of Ali Masjid.

The northern porch, south vestry together with battlements and buttresses to the nave were built during an 1878 restoration by Fairfax Blomfield Wade-Palmer.

The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O ' Hagan, sold the house together with of land to Burnley Corporation.