Postal Union (UPU). British clipper Loch Ard is wrecked off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria (Australia) with the loss of 52 lives and only 2 survivors. June 4 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom, but retains the nominal title. June 10 – The League of Prizren is officially founded "to struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania". June 13–July 13 – The Congress of Berlin convenes to discuss the Ottoman Empire. June 15 – Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California (a predecessor of silent film), demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time. June 20 – The U.S. Coastal Survey is renamed the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. June 22 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first man to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, along the Siberian coast. July–September July 4 – A match race between champion thoroughbred racehorses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty draws more than 30,000 fans to Louisville, and inspires the folk song, "Molly and Tenbrooks". July 13 – The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro and Romania completely independent, confirms the autonomy of Bulgaria, makes Cyprus a British possession, and allows Austria-Hungary to garrison the Bosnia Vilayet. August 9 – The Wallingford Tornado of 1878, the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, destroys the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people and injuring more than 70. August 26 – Uyedineniya Island is discovered in the Kara Sea, by Norwegian explorer Captain Edvard Holm Johannesen. September 3 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat collides with the Bywell Castle, in the River Thames. September 12 – Cleopatra's Needle is erected in London, having arrived in England on January 21. September 20 – The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, is founded. October–December October 1 – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, in the United States. October 14 – The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane, in Sheffield, England. October 17 – John A. Macdonald returns to office, as Prime Minister of Canada. October 31 – A fire destroys the Eldkvarn gristmill mill in Stockholm, Sweden. November