WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1878
Find out what all happened March to December 1878

Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. (15. June 1878)

Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. (1. September 1878)

John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania. (18. December 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)

The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. (24. March 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)

Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks. (4. July 1878)

Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London. (25. May 1878)

Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire. (13. July 1878)

The coat of arms of the Baku Governorate is established. (5. July 1878)

Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. (4. June 1878)

The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire. (3. March 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)

League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece. (10. June 1878)

Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. (3. September 1878)

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. (1. July 1878)