1678

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1675 1676 1677 – 1678 – 1679 1680 1681

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January 27 – The first fire engine company in what will become the United States goes into service.
February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress in London.
May 11 – French admiral Jean d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curaçao.
June – French buccaneer Michel de Grammont leads 6 pirate ships and 700 men in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, reaching inland as far as Trujillo, Venezuela.
June 25 – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to be awarded a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua.

August 10 – The Treaties of Nijmegen end the Franco-Dutch War. The County of Burgundy is ceded to the Kingdom of France.
September 6 – Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the Popish Plot, a supposed Roman Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England. Oates applies the term Tory to those who disbelieve his allegations.
October 17 – English magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. Titus Oates claims it as a proof of his allegations.
December 3 – Test Act provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons of England must swear an anti-Catholic oath before taking office.

Rebellion breaks out in southern China.
About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.
In Ireland, the vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
The first chrysanthemums are planted in Europe.

January 29 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
May 4 or May 14 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar (b. 1607)
May 18 – Miyamoto Iori, Japanese samurai (b. 1612)
August 5 – Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
August 16 – Andrew Marvell, English writer (b. 1621)
August 17 – Guillaume Herincx, Flemish theologian and Bishop of Ypres (b. 1621)
August 28 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
September 8 – Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (b. 1603)
October 12 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
October 18 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
October 19 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (b. c. 1627)
November 1 – William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)

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