WHAT HAPPENED IN 1878.
Look what happened the 1878.
The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. (15. October 1878)
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. (22. October 1878)
First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg. (17. November 1878)
John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania. (18. December 1878)
The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar (18. December 1878)
Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. (31. December 1878)
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