Page 2: Historical Events In 1878

Feb 01   Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate.   

Feb 02   Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake).   

Feb 02   Greece declares war on Turkey.   

Feb 03   Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)   

Feb 06   Waclaw Gieburowski, composer   

Feb 07   Ossip Gabrilovich, composer.   

Feb 07   Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85   

Feb 08   Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83   

Feb 08   Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du).   

Feb 10   Peace of Zanjón   

Feb 10   Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres.   

Feb 11   1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.   

Feb 11   inaugural weekly Weather report published in UK   

Feb 12   Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200358)   

Feb 12   Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200358)   

Feb 16   Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl)   

Feb 16   Silver dollar became US legal tender.   

Feb 16   The Silver Dollar was introduced as a U.S. coin.   

Feb 17   1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones   

Feb 17   Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59   

Feb 18   John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico   

Feb 18   Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76   

Feb 19   Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61   

Feb 19   Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)   

Feb 19   Thomas Edison patents the phonograph   

Feb 19   Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph).   

Feb 21   1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)   

Feb 21   Fritz Cortolezis, composer   

Feb 21   The inaugural U.S. telephone directory is distributed (District Telephone Co., New Haven, CT).   

Feb 22   Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84   

Feb 22   Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)   

Feb 22   Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio).   

Feb 28   US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate.   

Mar 01   Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of edwin Franko Goldman, composer   

Jan 01   Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929) was born in the year 1878.   

Jan 04   In the year 1878 birth of alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories)   

Jan 04   Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)   

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator (1926)   

Jan 12   Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk) was born in the year 1878.   

Jan 07   François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1878 victor Emmanuel II, king of Sard (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57   

Jan 18   On this day in history death of antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)   

Jan 19   On this day in history henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67   

Feb 01   George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 08   Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Feb 17   Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 in the year 1878.