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1878

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1878 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1878
MDCCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2631
Armenian calendar1327
ԹՎ ՌՅԻԷ
Assyrian calendar6628
Baháʼí calendar34–35
Balinese saka calendar1799–1800
Bengali calendar1285
Berber calendar2828
British Regnal year41 Vict. 1 – 42 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2422
Burmese calendar1240
Byzantine calendar7386–7387
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4575 or 4368
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4576 or 4369
Coptic calendar1594–1595
Discordian calendar3044
Ethiopian calendar1870–1871
Hebrew calendar5638–5639
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1934–1935
 - Shaka Samvat1799–1800
 - Kali Yuga4978–4979
Holocene calendar11878
Igbo calendar878–879
Iranian calendar1256–1257
Islamic calendar1294–1296
Japanese calendarMeiji 11
(明治11年)
Javanese calendar1806–1807
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4211
Minguo calendar34 before ROC
民前34年
Nanakshahi calendar410
Thai solar calendar2420–2421
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2004 or 1623 or 851
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
2005 or 1624 or 852
June 13: Congress of Berlin

1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1878th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 878th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1878, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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January–September – Cleopatra's Needle erected in London.

April–June

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July–September

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Europe after the Congress of Berlin in 1878 and the territorial and political rearrangement of the Balkan Peninsula.

October–December

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October 31Eldkvarn burns in Stockholm.

Date unknown

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Births

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Carl Sandburg
Theodoros Pangalos
Gordon Coates
Kōki Hirota
Vicente Mejía Colindres
Lionel Barrymore
Roy Atwell
Gustav Stresemann
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
Alfred Döblin
Lise Meitner
Joseph Stalin

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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Victor Emmanuel II
Pope Pius IX
Anna Sewell
William Cullen Bryant
Saint Mariam Baouardy

January–June

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July–December

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References

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