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:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1678
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1678

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.

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.

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.

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
- Bikram Samwat	1734 – 1735
- 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

March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
March 7 – Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
April 14 – Abraham Darby I, one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution (d. 1717)
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)

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)