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1878

Events

January–March

January 5 – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire.
January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks.
January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles.
January 24 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
January 28 – The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople.
February 2 – Greece declares war on Turkey.
February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed).
February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul but does not carry out the threat.
February 18 – The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
February 19 – The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
February 20 – Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.
February 24 – Anti-Russian demonstrations occur in Hyde Park, London.
February 28 – Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi).
March 3 – The Treaty of San Stefano concludes the Russo-Turkish War; Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire

March 24 – The British Royal Navy frigate capsizes in the English Channel, killing all but two of the 319 crew.
March 25 – Russia rejects a British proposal to lay the San Stefano treaty before a European congress.
March 27 – In anticipation of war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta.