The Bland – Allison Act was an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U. S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.

By 1878 Congress decided to act and passed legislation excluding the Chinese, but this was vetoed by President Hayes.

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

What is now Glassboro was originally formed as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1878, from portions of Clayton Township.

The exchange was formally incorporated by an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1878.

The Treaty of Berlin was the final act of the Congress of Berlin ( 13 June – 13 July 1878 ), by which the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Abdul Hamid II revised the Treaty of San Stefano signed on 3 March the same year.

In 1878, the legislature passed an act to separate the circuit and supreme courts after the population reached 100, 000.

The organisation managed to stall the reading of the act in parliament in 1878 but the act was passed at the second reading in 1879.

The region itself is defined by the result of that political act, followed by the inclusion of Northern Dobruja and the transfer of southern part of Bessarabia to Russia in 1878, the proclamation of the Kingdom of Romania in 1881, and the annexation of Southern Dobruja in 1913.

The most famous terrorist act of Land and Liberty was the assassination of the Chief of the Gendarmes Nikolai Mezentsov in 1878.

The first of such being the Bills of Sale Act 1854 which was repealed and re-enacted by the Bills of Sale Act 1878 which was almost on all fours with the 1854 act.

Before 1898, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws in the U. S. The first was the act of 1800 which was repealed in 1803 and followed by the act of 1841, which was repealed in 1843, and then the act of 1867, which was amended in 1874 and repealed in 1878.

An additional act of Congress in 1878 made the three-member Board of Commissioners the permanent government of the District of Columbia.

In 1878 he was appointed to act for six months as financial member of the governor-general's council, when he made proposals for meeting the difficulties arising from the depreciation of the rupee, then just beginning to be serious.

This act was followed by the Bills of Sale Act 1878 and the Bills of Sale Act ( 1878 ) Amendment Act 1882, which provided limited protection for debtors.

Again under Lord Derby he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1866 to 1868, being in charge of the act which called the Dominion of Canada into being, and from 1874 to 1878 he was President of the Board of Trade.

Although the 15th Legislature passed an act to establish the University on Aug. 14, 1876, the University did not open its doors until March 11, 1878.

It was initially adopted by the German states in 1865, ( from which point onwards till the middle of WWI approximately 5 % of every bayonet style was issued with a sawback version ) Great Britain in 1869, Belgium in 1868 and Switzerland in 1878, ( who introduced their last model in 1914 ).

The office was initially established by the 1878 Stellvertretungsgesetz, which provided for the Chancellor appointing a deputy, officially known as Allgemeiner Stellvertreter des Reichskanzlers ( Deputy General to the Chancellor ).

The city of Jellico was initially founded as Smithburg in 1878, but changed its name to " Jellico " in 1883 to capitalize on the growing popularity of Jellico coal.

Most significant to the development of the player piano was the Aeolian Company, founded as the Mechanical Orguinette Company in 1878, initially as retailer of small reed organs made by the Munroe Organ Company and others.

The club initially played at Turnshaws until moving to the ground at Riley in 1878.

Though Labiche was initially reluctant, he issued his comic plays in ten volumes during 1878 and 1879, which were enthusiastically received.

Despite initially amicable relations, in 1878 the two religious leaders had a dispute motivated by Sheikh Sharif's resentment of his former student's growing popularity.

Although the athletic club had formed a rugby football section in 1866, Fartown was initially used for athletics festivals alterations made in the summer of 1878 meant that rugby could begin at the start of the 1878 / 79 season with the visit of Manchester Rangers on 2 November.

Luxton was not initially supportive of Premier Robert A. Davis ( 1874 – 1878 ), but endorsed the Davis ministry after brought John Norquay into cabinet ( Davis's early supporters were primarily from the francophone community, and Norquay's presence gave the ministry greater credibility among the anglophone population ).

Minamikoma District was founded during the early Meiji period establishment of the municipalities system on July 22, 1878 and initially consisted of 22 villages.

Minamitsuru District was founded during the early Meiji period establishment of the municipalities system on July 22, 1878 and initially consisted of 21 villages.

Kitatsuru District was founded during the early Meiji period establishment of the municipalities system on July 22, 1878 and initially consisted of 18 villages.

After the Meiji Restoration, it initially formed part of the short-lived Ashigari Prefecture, before was established as a district of Kanagawa Prefecture under the cadastral reform of 1878.

After the Meiji Restoration, it initially formed part of the short-lived Ashigara Prefecture, before was established as a district of Kanagawa Prefecture under the cadastral reform of 1878.

Very soon after, on 10 April 1878, London Scottish FC was founded in MacKay's Tavern, London, and initially played on Blackheath Common, and later at Richmond Athletic Ground in Surrey.

The club was founded in 1878 and initially played at Buck's Farm, Pennington.

He first showcased his colour contouring system at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 ; although it initially met with skepticism, it went on to become standard cartographical practice ".

The town site was initially known to pioneer settlers as the Muddy Creek settlement for the Yea River, called Muddy Creek until 1878.

Anacalypsis was initially printed as a limited edition of 200 copies, partially reprinted in 1878, and completely reprinted in a limited edition of 350 copies in 1927.

The club was formed in 1878 and initially took part only in minor local competitions.

He first showcased his colour contouring system at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 ; although it initially met with skepticism, it went on to become standard cartographical practice.

1858 saw the erection of a monument for Johannes Gutenberg which was also placed in Roßmarkt, and another for Friedrich Schiller in 1864 which initially stood at Hauptwache but was moved to Goetheplatz in 1878 and then to the Taunusanlage in 1955.

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

In 1878 his views on the county franchise question prevented him from voting consistently with his party.

Murillo was again elected senator in 1878, and occupied his seat in the next session of congress, but sickness prevented him from attending in 1880, and he died in the same year.

In 1878, Hunt suffered a severe paralyzing stroke, which prevented him from attending court sessions or rendering opinions.

Business prevented Lucas touring Australia with the first Test-playing team in 1876 / 1877, but despite being rather disappointing in his last year at Cambridge Lucas made his only tour in 1878 / 1879 under Lord Harris, when he did much more bowling than he would ordinarily have done owing to the absence of any specialist bowler except Tom Emmett.