Editing 1878 (section)

===October&ndash;December===
[[File:Eldkvarn 1878.jpg|thumb|right|[[October 31]] &ndash; [[Eldkvarn]] burns in [[Stockholm]].]]
* [[October 14]] &ndash; The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at [[Bramall Lane]], in [[Sheffield]], England.
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[John A. Macdonald]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[October 27]] – The [[Manhattan Savings Institution robbery]] occurs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roth |first=Cheyna |date=2023-12-28 |title=My Favorite Victorian Criminal Was a Bank Robber With a Secret Weapon |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/george-leslie-bank-robber-heist-history.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; A fire destroys the ''[[Eldkvarn]]'' gristmill in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]. 
* [[November 17]] &ndash; The first assassination attempt is made against [[Umberto I of Italy]] by anarchist [[Giovanni Passannante]], armed with a dagger. The King survives with a slight wound in one arm. Prime minister [[Benedetto Cairoli]] blocks the aggressor, receiving a leg injury.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; The [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] commences when the British attack [[Ali Masjid]] in the [[Khyber Pass]].
* [[November 26]] &ndash; American-born artist [[James McNeill Whistler]]'s [[libel]] case against English critic [[John Ruskin]], over a review of the painting ''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket]]'' (in which Whistler is described as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"),<ref>Ruskin, John (1877-07-02). ''[[Fors Clavigera]]''.</ref> is decided in the [[High Court of Justice]] in London. Whistler wins a [[Farthing (British coin)|farthing]] in nominal damages and only half of the costs, leading to his bankruptcy, and alienates patrons.<ref>Whistler, J. McNeill (1890). ''[[The Gentle Art of Making Enemies]]''.</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The United States [[New Mexico Territory|territory of New Mexico]] is linked to the rest of the nation by railroad for the first time, as the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] inaugurates a newly completed line through the [[Raton Pass]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Walter R.|last=Borneman|title=Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad|publisher=Random House Digital|year=2010|page=168}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] &ndash; French passenger steamer ''Byzantin'' founders in the [[Dardanelles]] during a gale after collision with British SS ''Rinaldo'', killing around 210 people, with only 14 crew of the ''Byzantin'' saved.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Collision in the Dardanelles|work=The Cornishman|issue=25|date=1878-01-02|page=7}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Stella Maris Church, Sliema]] on [[Malta]] becomes a parish, seceding from the Parish of St. Helen's in [[Birkirkara]].