1878
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"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 12-day, 200km solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878."--Sholem Stein |
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1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) is the 878th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1870s decade.
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Art and culture
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Visual arts
- Whistler/Ruskin trial
- Whistler sues Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, calling the artist a "coxcomb".
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1878) - Félicien Rops
- Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts (1878) - Edouard Manet
- The Enchantress (1878) - Luis Riccardo Faléro
- Guardian Spirit of the Waters (1878) - Odilon Redon
- Rolla by Henri Gervex
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Technology
- Thomas Edison: first electric light
- Eadweard Muybridge solved Stanford and the trot question by making high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system.
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Births
- Eileen Gray (1878-1976)
- Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952)
- March 5 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
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Deaths
- Auguste Poulet-Malassis (1825 - 1878)
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