In 1851, the Mitchell area was the birthplace of outlaw and train robber Sam Bass ( 1851 – 1878 ).

The parish was the birthplace of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club which was established in 1878 and later became the world famous Manchester United.

Leopold Löwenheim ( 26 June 1878 in Krefeld, Germany ( also the birthplace of Max Zorn ) – 5 May 1957 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic.

On October 11, 1878, Longley was executed by hanging in Giddings, Texas, only a few miles from his birthplace of Evergreen.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

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.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

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.

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.

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.

On 11 September 1878 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 268 coal miners.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

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.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.

It was established in 1878, two years after the Diocese of Truro was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

* Saint Petrock Royal Arch Chapter No. 330 was consecrated on the 11 April 1878, it currently meets on the third Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September & November

The Bronze Star Medal was designed by Rudolf Freund ( 1878 – 1960 ) of jewelry firm Bailey, Banks & Biddle.

Following the 1868 – 1878 rebellion of the Ten Years ' War, all slavery was abolished by 1884, making Cuba the second-to-last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, with Brazil being the last.

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.

They had a second son, Michel, on 17 March 1878, ( Jean was born in 1867 ).

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

Falls of Clyde is a well-preserved example of a more conservatively designed, slower contemporary of the clippers, which was built for general freight in 1878.

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.

He was the author of several works, the most important being The Principles and Practice of Surgery ( 1878 – 1883 ).

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

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.

He also invented with Claude Bernard ( 1813 – 1878 ) the process of pasteurization still in use today.

In 1878, the university college Stockholms högskola started its operations with a series of lectures on natural sciences, open to curious citizens ( a tradition still upheld by yearly publicly open lectures ).

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

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.

From 1878 to 1890, any grouping or meeting that aimed at spreading socialist principles was banned ( anti-Socialist laws ), but it still gained support in elections.

Deciding to emigrate, the couple and their children moved to Australia's New South Wales in 1878, but it was here that Mary died after a few years, and so in 1886 Stephen remarried, this time to Harriet Eliza Gordon ( 1853 – 1910 ), an Englishwoman from a wealthy background who had moved to Australia when still a child.

Keston WindmillKeston has had three windmills over the centuries: the post mill built in 1716 that still stands on Keston Common, a smock mill known as Olive's mill, built in 1824 and burnt down between 1878 and 1885, and a third mill, which stood at Holwood Park.

The oldest home still standing in Holly Hill was built in 1878.

The polo ground is still visible on Balcones Ranch, bought by Captain Turquand in 1878.

His refusal lost Bavaria to the movement ; and the number of Bavarian sympathizers was still further reduced when the seceders, in 1878, allowed their priests to marry, a decision which Doellinger, as was known, sincerely regretted.

* Bosnia and Herzegovina were a joint Austrian and Hungarian protectorate since 1878 which formally still belonged to the Ottoman Empire until 1908 when it was annexed by Austria-Hungary ( see Bosnian crisis ).

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia (, Iztochna Rumeliya ;, Rumeli-i Şarkî ;, Anatoliki Romylia ) was an autonomous unit ( Oblast in Bulgarian, vilayet in Turkish ) in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and ended in 1885, when it willingly united with Bulgaria, from which state its territory is still part.

In 1878, the International Congo Society was also formed, with more economic goals, but still closely related to the former society.

Holliday was still practicing dentistry on the side from his rooms in Fort Griffin and in Dodge City, as indicated in an 1878 Dodge newspaper advertisement ( he promised money back for less than complete customer satisfaction ), but this is the last known time he attempted to practice.

The Darwen News published a Maudley Medley on 9 March 1878 which still resigns in popularity today:

When Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, Muslims saw it as their arch-enemy and many left Bosnia for territories still under Ottoman rule.

Two transitional repeating infantry bolt action rifles, still chambered for the 11mm Gras black powder cartridge, followed the Mle 1878 rifle: the Mle 1884 and the Mle 1885 rifles.

In 1878, Gorriti returned to Argentina, and even after having faced numerous scandals in her life such as divorce, exile, and Belzu having a child out of wedlock, she was still seen as an exceptional woman who brought great pride to her country.

In March 1878, the School Committee decided to receive no more boys, but those already admitted should remain ; this decision was reversed in July, and no more girls were received as boarders, though they still remained as day-scholars.

The forest itself is protected from development of any kind, and as a result still stretches from the heart of East London out into the Essex countryside, a green lung for the area which has of course become much more built up since 1878.

1878 ) are still interesting to the historian.

The Erie still did not see profits and via bankruptcy was sold in 1878 to become the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad.