• Events from the year 1878 in China. Guangxu Emperor (4th year) Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi Viceroy of Zhili — Li Hongzhang Viceroy of Min-Zhe — He Jing...
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    China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1878. 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    starvation. Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan...
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    (Mabille, 1876) West China, Tibet Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002 genus: Arnetta Arnetta atkinsoni (Moore, 1878) genus: Astictopterus...
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  • Marie Monsen (category 1878 births)
    Marie Monsen (Chinese: 孟慕貞 or 孟瑪麗; born 1878 in Sandviken, Norway – 1962) was a Norwegian missionary active in North and Central China between 1901 and...
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    autonomous Eastern Orthodox Christian church in China. An organized Orthodox presence was maintained in the region as early as the 17th century as a child...
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  • In re Ah Yup was an 1878 landmark court decision in the United States that deemed residents of Asian descent ineligible for naturalization. Since the...
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    Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE. There are an estimated 17–25 million Muslims in China, less than 2 percent of the total population...
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    languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
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    Federal elections were held in Germany on 30 July 1878. The National Liberal Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag with 97 of the 397 seats...
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  • name "China" was also used domestically by the Qing, such as in its officially released stamps since Qing set up a modern postal system in 1878. The postage...
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    foulpointense Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar C. fujianense Gong, 1983 – China C. fulvotestaceum Simon, 1878 – France C. furax L. Koch, 1873 – Samoa C. furculatum Karsch...
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    Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (category 1878 deaths)
    Douglas, Gunboat Justice, Vol 1 Foreign Office List 1878, p103 North China Herald, 24 Jan 1878 pp81-2. This article published a long obituary that concluded:...
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    Karsch, 1878 – Australia Dolomedes straeleni Roewer, 1955 – Congo Dolomedes striatus Giebel, 1869 – USA, Canada Dolomedes sulfureus L. Koch, 1878 – Russia...
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    Zuo Zongtang (category Naval history of China)
    Muslims in Northwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 127, 140. ISBN 0-295-97644-6. The Canadian spectator, Volume 1. 1878. p. 462...
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    built a few years earlier by the Dogras.[non-primary source needed] In 1878 the Chinese had reconquered Xinjiang, and by 1890 they already had Shahidulla...
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  • China has a history of female infanticide which spans 2,000 years. When Christian missionaries arrived in China in the late sixteenth century, they witnessed...
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  • pieces of legislation: the Bills of Sale Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 31) and the Bills of Sale Act (1878) Amendment Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 43). This...
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    China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated...
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    China Oxytate ribes (Jezequel, 1964) — Ivory Coast Oxytate sangangensis Tang et al., 1999 — China Oxytate striatipes L. Koch, 1878 — Russia, China, Korea...
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    Events from the year 1878 in Canada. Monarch – Victoria Governor General – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (until November 25) then John Campbell...
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  • People's Republic of China, commonly known as China. See also Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue - Part 17 China. Between 1949 and 1979, China's stamps featured...
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    service was opened to the public on 1 May 1878, and China's first postage stamps, the "Large Dragons" (Chinese: 大龍郵票; pinyin: dà lóng yóupiào), were issued...
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  • of China (Chinese: 蔣宋孔陳四大家族; pinyin: Jiǎng-Sòng-Kǒng-Chén sì dà jiāzú) are four politically influential families in the Republic of China, first in Mainland...
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    Yunnan (redirect from Yunnan, China)
    2020-06-13. Retrieved 2019-05-10. Fytche 1878, p. 301 Dillon 1999, p. 77 G. E. Morrison, An Australian in China Archived 2016-12-30 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Kōki Hirota (category 1878 births)
    Kōki Hirota (廣田 弘毅, Hirota Kōki, 14 February 1878 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from...
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    Alexander von Falkenhausen (category 1878 births)
    Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann Freiherr von Falkenhausen (29 October 1878 – 31 July 1966) was a German general and military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek...
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    Kuomintang. It was adopted in 1930 as the national anthem and was used as such in mainland China until 1949, when the Republic of China central government relocated...
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    the "Johnson Line" (or "Ardagh-Johnson Line"). After the Chinese reconquered Turkestan in 1878, renaming it Xinjiang, they again reverted to their traditional...
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