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Decades:

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Events

13 July – Congress of Berlin
13 July– Treaty of Berlin
30 July – German federal election, 1878
19 October – First Anti-Socicalist law passed by the German Reichstag

Births

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4 January – Gerdt von Bassewitz, German playwright and actor (died 1923)
16 March – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1946)
1 April – Carl Sternheim, German playwright and short story writer (died 1942)
6 April – Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (died 1934)
21 April – Albert Weisgerber, German painter (died 1915)
10 May – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate (died 1929)
30 May – Hermine Körner, German actress (died 1960)
4 June – Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer (died 1956)
10 July – Otto Freundlich, German painter, sculptor (died 1943)
16 July – Andreas Hermes, German politician (died 1964)
26 July – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (died 1937)
10 August – Alfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and writer (died 1957)
13 August – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator (died 1967)
17 August – Paul Troost, German architect (died 1934)
2 September – Werner von Blomberg, German Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (died 1946)
16 September – Karl Albiker, German sculptor (died 1961)
26 September – Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (died 1943)
29 October – Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1966)
30 October – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer (died 1929)
21 November – Gustav Radbruch, German legal scholar and politician (died 1949)
15 December – Hans Carossa, German novelist (died 1956)
30 December – Rudolf Petersen, German politician (died 1962)

Deaths

8 March – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (born 1820)
20 March – Julius von Mayer, German physician and physicist (born 1814)
23 March – Ernst Keil, German journalist and publisher (born 1816)
25 May – Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician and physicist (born 1796)
12 June – George V of Hanover, last King of Hanover (born 1819)
12 September – Friedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (born 1795)
25 September – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (born 1822)
4 October – Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (born 1820)
4 November – Ludwig Meyn, German agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist and mineralogist (born 1820)
17 November – Karl Theodor Keim, Protestant theologian (born 1825)
10 December – Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (born 1820)
14 December - Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1843 in the United Kingdom)
16 December – Richard Hartmann, German engineering manufacturer (born 1809)

References

Dimitrije Djordjevic, "The Berlin Congress of 1878 and the Origins Of World War I." Serbian Studies (1998) 12 #1 pp 1–10.
Hertslet, Edward (1891), "Treaty between Great-Britain, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, for the Settlement of Affairs in the East, Signed at Berlin, 13th July 1878 (Translation)", The Map of Europe by Treaty; which have taken place since the general peace of 1814. With numerous maps and notes, vol. IV (1875–1891) (First ed.), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, pp. 2759–2798, retrieved 8 February 2019 – via Internet Archive
Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Berlin § Berlin, Congress and Treaty of" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 790–791.

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