13 January 1878Invention of TelephoneVictoria
Watches a demonstration of the telephone
Historical records for Great Britain in 1878, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Watches a demonstration of the telephone
Birth of Frederick Arthur Stanley
Serves with Disraeli and Salisbury in the British delegation to the Congress of Berlin.
Signs an agreement with Shuvalov providing for an Anglo-Russian-Ottoman commission to delimit the Alashkerd frontier.
Works with Count Shuvalov to settle major Anglo-Russian differences before and during the congress.
Accepts Russian possession of Batum after Russia declares its intention to make the port essentially commercial and free.
Supports Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the revised Balkan settlement.
Supports reducing the Bulgarian state created at San Stefano to limit Russian influence in the Balkans.
Accepts creation of Eastern Rumelia as an autonomous Ottoman province south of the new Bulgarian principality.
Supports provisions allowing the Great Powers to mediate if Greece and the Ottoman Empire cannot agree on frontier changes.
Helps shape the compromise that leaves Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Russia but restores Bayazid and Alashkerd to the Ottoman Empire.
Accepts Russian possession of Kars, Ardahan and Batum while opposing wider Russian expansion in Ottoman Asia.
Signs the Treaty of Berlin as British prime minister and First Lord of the Treasury.
Signs the Treaty of Berlin for Great Britain alongside Salisbury and Odo Russell.
Signs the final settlement as Britain's foreign secretary.
Signs the Treaty of Berlin as Britain's ambassador at the German imperial court.
Returns home claiming, "peace with honour"
The Congress of Berlin awards Cyprus to Britain. Returns home claiming, "peace with honour". Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used
Returns to Britain presenting the Berlin settlement as a diplomatic success that preserved the European balance.
Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used
Represents Britain when the principal instruments of ratification are exchanged in Berlin.
Birth of George Clarke Simpson
Publication of "A Defence of Philosophic Doubt"
Returns home claiming, "peace with honour". Attends the Congress of Berlin with Lord Salisbury
Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used
Undertakes survey and administrative work in Cyprus after Britain assumes control of the island.
Appointed Foreign Minister
Begins systematic observations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its changing longitude.
Appointed President of the Home Rule Confederation
Appointed President of the Home Rule Confederation
Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to his uncle, Lord Salisbury
Created a Viscount
Presents the Suez Canal shareholding as a symbol of imperial foresight and British influence in Egypt.
Many of the rebel leaders under Sulieman are rounded up & shot
Many of the rebel leaders under Sulieman are rounded up & shot
On returning to London announce "I bring peace with honor & Cyprus". Demands Cyprus as the price for mediating a peace between Turkey & Russia
Appointed Secretary of State for War
Appointed Secretary of State for India
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