1678

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:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Events of 1678

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.

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.

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.

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)

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