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1778






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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
  • Decades:
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • Years:
  • 1776
  • 1777
  • 1778
  • 1779
  • 1780
  • 1781
  • 1778 in various calendars
    Gregorian calendar1778
    MDCCLXXVIII
    Ab urbe condita2531
    Armenian calendar1227
    ԹՎ ՌՄԻԷ
    Assyrian calendar6528
    Balinese saka calendar1699–1700
    Bengali calendar1185
    Berber calendar2728
    British Regnal year18 Geo. 3 – 19 Geo. 3
    Buddhist calendar2322
    Burmese calendar1140
    Byzantine calendar7286–7287
    Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
    4475 or 4268
        — to —
    戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
    4476 or 4269
    Coptic calendar1494–1495
    Discordian calendar2944
    Ethiopian calendar1770–1771
    Hebrew calendar5538–5539
    Hindu calendars
     - Vikram Samvat1834–1835
     - Shaka Samvat1699–1700
     - Kali Yuga4878–4879
    Holocene calendar11778
    Igbo calendar778–779
    Iranian calendar1156–1157
    Islamic calendar1191–1192
    Japanese calendarAn'ei7
    (安永7年)
    Javanese calendar1703–1704
    Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
    Korean calendar4111
    Minguo calendar134 before ROC
    民前134年
    Nanakshahi calendar310
    Thai solar calendar2320–2321
    Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
    (female Fire-Rooster)
    1904 or 1523 or 751
        — to —
    阳土狗年
    (male Earth-Dog)
    1905 or 1524 or 752
    June 28: Battle of Monmouth

    1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1778th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 778th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1778, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

    Events[edit]

    January–March[edit]

    April–June[edit]

    July–September[edit]

    October–December[edit]

    November 26: Captain Cook lands on Maui.

    Undated[edit]

    Births[edit]

    January–April[edit]

    Thomas Lincoln
    José de San Martín
    William Hazlitt

    May–August[edit]

    Harry Croswell
    Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
    Bernardo O'Higgins

    September–December[edit]

    Clemens Brentano
    Giovanni Battista Belzoni
    Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
    Humphry Davy
    Joseph Grimaldi

    Undated[edit]

    Deaths[edit]

    Carl Linnaeus
    Voltaire
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c d Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p166
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  • ^ Barry Alan Shain, The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context (Yale University Press, 2014) p657
  • ^ Raymond C. Houghton, A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 9 (Cyber Haus, 2003) pp37-38
  • ^ "Benedict Arnold". www.ushistory.org.
  • ^ Harrison Wick; Luzerne Country Historical Society (2011). Luzerne County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7385-7378-6.
  • ^ Kozina, N. I. (1995). "З історії переселення греків з Криму на Маріупольщину: Митрополит Ігнатій (Газадінов)" [From the history of the relocation of the Greeks from the Crimea to the Mariupol region: Metropolitan Ignatius (Gazadinov)]. Регіональне і загальне в історії: Тези міжнародної наукової конференції, присвяченої 140-річчю від дня народження Д.І.Яворницького та 90-літтю XIII Археологічного з'їзду (9 листопада 1995 р.) [Regional and general in history: Abstracts from the international scientific conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of D.I. Yavornytsky and the 90th anniversary of the XIII Archaeological Congress (9 November 1995)]. By Beketov, V. M. (in Ukrainian). Dnipro: Institute of History of Ukraine. pp. 262–264. ISBN 5-7707-8671-X. Retrieved March 13, 2023 – via Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipropetrovsk.
  • ^ "The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe". World Digital Library. 1778. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  • ^ Francesco Flamini (1907). A History of Italian Literature (1265-1907). National Alumni. p. 306.
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  • ^ Alexander IRELAND (1868). List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, chronologically arranged, with notes ... p. 46.
  • ^ Chase's Calendar of Events 2019. Rowman & Littlefield. September 30, 2018. p. 312. ISBN 978-1-64143-264-1.
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  • ^ The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ... Redfield. 1852. p. 72.
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  • ^ John Ayrton Paris (June 2, 2011). The Life of Sir Humphry Davy. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-108-07318-9.
  • ^ Albert Edward Wilson (1946). Pantomime Pageant: A Procession of Harlequins, Clowns, Comedians, Principal Boys, Pantomime-writers, Producers and Playgoers. S. Paul & Company Limited. p. 21.
  • ^ "History of William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
  • ^ "¿Sabes quién fué José de la Borda Sánchez?" [Do you know who José de la Borda Sánchez was?] (in Spanish). Mineria en Linea. November 21, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  • ^ Peter Gay, The Enlightenment – An Interpretation, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom, Wildwood House, London, 1973, pp. 88–89.
  • ^ Charles Henry Dobinson (1969). Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and Its Relevance Today. Methuen. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-416-15210-4.
  • ^ Benjamin Burges Moore (1962). Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.
  • ^ Robert J. Morgan (October 2010). Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns. Revell. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-8007-3395-7.
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