1778

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Years:
1775 1776 1777 - 1778 - 1779 1780 1781

Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1778 in art
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1778 in music
1778 in science

List of state leaders in 1778
List of religious leaders in 1778

Events

"The term Thoroughbred was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick .
January 18 - Third Pacific expedition of Capt. James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, first view O'ahu then Kaua'i in the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
February 5 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation
February 6 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
February 23 - American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army
July 10 - American Revolutionary War: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 27 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
September - The Massachusetts Banishment Act, providing punishment for Loyalists, is passed.
November 26 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover Maui.
France Introduced the first state-controlled brothel

Births

February 22 - Rembrandt Peale, artist
April 10 - William Hazlitt - English essayist
September 19 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
November 1 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
December 17 - Sir Humphry Davy - English chemist
Abd ar-Rahman, sultan of Morocco.

Deaths

January 10 - Carolus Linnaeus
May 30 - François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, French philosopher
June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher

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