Due to the congress of Berlin 1878 independent Balkan areas were reduced in size, Macedonia was handed back to Turkey, and Bulgaria had no longer access to the Aegean sea. Also Austria-Hungary was allowed to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Ernest Shackleton was born in 1878 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland. The Shackleton family moved to Sydenham, a London suburb, in 1884.
For services to the Crown, he was a very senior Civil Servant, who spent his life in the Dipolmatic Service. On his retirement in 1878, he was created a baron.
i do not think so... the great powers from Western Europe had colonies (like France, England, Holland and so on).. i think a country must be a naval power and also to have a strong army to be able to have colonies, which Bulgaria was not. And the run for colonies started much earlier before Bulgaria was independent (1878) my opinion: Bulgaria did not have colonies
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which had been settled by the Clunies Ross family in the 1820s, were annexed by Great Britain in 1857. In 1878 the island group was attached to Ceylon, but was transferred to the Straits Settlement in 1886. During WW2, the islands were under British military control exercised from Ceylon. At the end of WW2, administration from Singapore was continued until the islands were transferred to Australia on 23rd of November, 1955.
The Ned Kelly gang was formed following an altercation with a corrupt police official known as Constable Fitzpatrick. He claimed that Ned, his brother, Dan, their mother and three neighbors had attacked him. Ned and his brother weren't home at the time and heard their mother had been thrown in jail over this incident. They returned home, vowing revenge. The Kelly boys were joined by Joe Byrne and Steve Hart. They became known as the Kelly Gang.