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

1678 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1678 (MDCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1678 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1678

[edit] January–June

• January 27 – The first fire engine company in what will become the United States goes into service.
• February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress.
• May 11 – French admiral 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.

[edit] July–December

• August 10 – The Treaties of Nijmegen end the Franco-Dutch War.
• September 6 – Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the Popish Plot, a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England.
• October 17 – British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. Titus Oates claims it as a proof of his allegations.

[edit] Undated

• About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.
• The first chrysanthemums are planted in Europe.
• In Ireland, the Diocese of Kildare is united with Leighlin to form the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
• Rebellion breaks out in Southern China.

[edit] Births

1678 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1678 MDCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2431
Armenian calendar	1127 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-166 – -165
Bengali calendar	1085
Berber calendar	2628
Buddhist calendar	2222
Burmese calendar	1040
Byzantine calendar	7186 – 7187
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十二月初九日 (4314/4374-12-9) — to — 戊午年十一月十八日 (4315/4375-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1394 – 1395
Ethiopian calendar	1670 – 1671
Hebrew calendar	5438 – 5439
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1733 – 1734
- Shaka Samvat	1600 – 1601
- Kali Yuga	4779 – 4780
Holocene calendar	11678
Iranian calendar	1056 – 1057
Islamic calendar	1088 – 1089
Japanese calendar	Enpō 6 (延宝6年)
Korean calendar	4011
Thai solar calendar	2221
v • d • e

• March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
• March 7 – Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
• May 16 – Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (d. 1734)
• July 26 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
• September 16 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
• September 29 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
• October 10 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
• November 26 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
• December 8 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
• December 13 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
• December 14 – Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
• December 30 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
• date unknown – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (d. 1707)

[edit] Deaths

• 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)