1778

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years:	1775 1776 1777 – 1778 – 1779 1780 1781

[edit] Events of 1778

June 28: The Battle of Monmouth.

July 3 – American Revolutionary War: the Wyoming Massacre takes place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending in a terrible defeat of the local colonists.
July 4 – American Revolutionary War: George Rogers Clark takes Kaskaskia.
July 10 – Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 27 – American Revolution – First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
August 26 – Triglav, at 2,864 meters above sea level the highest peak of Slovenia, is ascended for the first time by four brave men: Luka Korošec, Matevž Kos, Štefan Rožič, and Lovrenc Willomitzer on Sigmund Zois' initiative.
August 29 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Rhode Island takes place when the Continental Army attempts to retake Aquidneck Island from the British.
September – The Massachusetts Banishment Act, providing punishment for Loyalists, is passed.
September 17 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
September 19 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
November 26 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to land on Maui.

November 26: Captain Cook lands on Maui.

The first settlement is made in the area of what is now Louisville, Kentucky by 13 families under Colonel George Rogers Clark.
Phillips Academy, the most prestigious secondary boarding school in the United States, is founded by Samuel Phillips Jr.
First Ironbridge.
The term "thoroughbred" is first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.

January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
February 18 – Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
February 20 – Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
March 5 – Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule, Britannia! (b. 1710)
March 7 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720)
March 13 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
April 22 – James Hargreaves, English weaver, carpenter, and inventor (b. 1720)
May 11 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
May 16 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (b. 1718)
May 30 – Voltaire, French philosopher (b. 1694)
June 12 – Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
June 16 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
July 2 – Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (b. 1746?)
July 5 – James Townley, English dramatist (b. 1714)
August 5 – Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
August 12 – Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
November 20 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
date unknown – Thomas Johnson, furniture maker (b. 1714)

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