1878
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Rolla (1878) - Henri Gervex
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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
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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)
- Molnár (1878-1952)
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Deaths
- Auguste Poulet-Malassis (1825 - 1878)
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