1678

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).

Events of 1678

January - June

• January 27 - The first fire engine company in what would become the United States went 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 six pirate ships and 700 men on in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, reaching inland as far as Trujillo, Venezuela.

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

• 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)
• date unknown - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (died 1707)

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)
• May 18 - Miyamoto Iori, Japanese samurai (born 1612)
• August 5 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (born 1619)
• August 16 - Andrew Marvell, English writer (born 1621)
• August 17 - Guillaume Herincx, Flemish theologian and Bishop of Ypres (born 1621)
• August 28 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (born 1602)
• September 8 - Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter (born 1603)
• 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)af:1678

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