WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1878
Find out what all happened July to November 1878

The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. (22. October 1878)

The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. (15. 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)

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)

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

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

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