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1878
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Update Yeardata: 1878
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Monarch is Queen Victoria. Prime Minister is Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative). US President is Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio). The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria. London introduces Electric street lighting on the Thames Embankment and Waterloo Bridge. In the USA, the <em>Bland–Allison Act</em> leads to the first minting of the Morgan dollar.
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This was last updated on 26-Feb-2021 13:05:13