1678

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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 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths

Events of 1678

January - June

• February 18 - John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress
• May 11 - French admiral d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curaçao

July - December

• August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the 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.

Undated

• About 1200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.
• The first chrysanthemums in Europe.
• In Ireland, the Diocese of Kildare is united with Leighlin to form the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

Births

1678 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1678 MDCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2431
Armenian calendar	1127 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-166 – -165
Buddhist calendar	2222
Chinese calendar	4314/4374-12-9 (丁巳年十二月初九日) — to — 4315/4375-11-18 (戊午年十一月十八日)
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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2338 (皇紀2338年)
- Jōmon Era	11678
Julian calendar	1723
Korean calendar	4011
Thai solar calendar	2221
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• March 4 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (died 1741)
• March 7 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (died 1736)
• May 16 - Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (died 1734)
• July 26 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1711)
• September 16 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (died 1751)
• September 29 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (died 1766)
• October 10 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (died 1743)
• November 26 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (died 1771)
• December 8 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (died 1757)
• December 13 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (died 1735)
• December 14 - Daniel Neal, English historian (died 1743)
• December 30 - William Croft, English composer (died 1727)

Unknown dates

• George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (died 1707)

See also Category: 1678 births.

Deaths

• January 29 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (born 1593)
• May 4 or May 14 - Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar (born 1607)
• August 5 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (born 1619)
• August 16 - Andrew Marvell, English writer (born 1621)
• August 28 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (born 1602)
• October 12 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (born 1621)
• October 18 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (born 1593)
• October 19 - Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (born c. 1627)
• November 1 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (born 1601)

See also Category: 1678 deaths.

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