1878
- ?: Uncle Cent withdraws his shares from Goupil & Cie.
- March: Tersteeg has recommended Theo to assist Goupil & Cie in Paris during the World Fair.
- July 5: Vincent abandons studies and returns to Etten.
- July 16–17: father introduces Vincent to the governors of the Evangelical College (Vlaamse opleidingsschool) in Laeken, near Brussels, accompanied by Reverend Jones. (One of six founders in 1875 was Abraham van der Waeyen Pieterszen).
- 24 August: having postponed his departure to assist at the wedding of his sister Anna (August 21), Vincent moves to Laeken.
- October 27: C. M. Vos, husband of Kee Vos Stricker, dies.
- December: fails exams.
- December 26: turns to the Committee (Comité d'Evangélisation) and asks to be accepted for the Borinage.
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