Not an easy year.
Thomas Edison invented in that year a version of the incandescent light bulb that would change the world.
Architect Gustave Strauwen, a follower and a colleague of Victor Horta, was born in that year.
In Belgium, King Leopold II sets up the “Comité d’études du Haut-Congo”.
- Plaque in a house buillt by a architect G. Strauwen in St. Gilles
- Street sign displaying the year 1878
- Plaque displaying the year 1878
- Street sign mentioning the year 1878 (E. Bockstael’s first year as major of Laeken)