Historical Events In 1778

Jun 24   Peter Burmannus Secundus, [P Burman], Dutch classicist, dies at 64 in the year 1778.   

Jun 26   In the year 1778 angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77   

Jun 27   Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left in the year 1778.   

Jun 28   On this day in history battle of Monmouth, NJ   

Jun 28   On this day in history battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton)   

Jun 28   Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots on this day in history.   

Jul 02   Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jul 03   British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa in the year 1778.   

Jul 03   Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies in the year 1778.   

Jul 07   Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 08   Allied French fleet under Comte d'Estaing arrives in America on this day in history.   

Jul 08   In the year 1778 george Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army   

Jul 10   American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain in the year 1778.   

Jul 10   Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master in the year 1778.   

Jul 25   On this day in history heinrich Gebhard, composer   

Jul 28   Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68 in the year 1778.   

Jul 28   On this day in history charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869   

Jul 29   On this day in history carl Borromaus Neuner, composer   

Aug 03   On this day in history teatro alla Scala opens in Milan   

Aug 05   Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 in the year 1778.   

Aug 09   Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait in the year 1778.   

Aug 09   On this day in history captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits   

Aug 11   In the year 1778 friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement   

Aug 12   In the year 1778 francis Horner, politician   

Aug 14   Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies in the year 1778.   

Aug 18   In the year 1778 fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica   

Aug 20   On this day in history bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile   

Aug 26   On this day in history the first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.   

Aug 28   Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies in the year 1778.   

Aug 31   In the year 1778 british kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution   

Aug 31   British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution on this day in history.   

Sep 02   In the year 1778 leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician   

Sep 03   In the year 1778 jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer   

Sep 04   City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels in the year 1778.   

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Jan 03   Antoni Melchior FijaÅ‚kowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861) was born in the year 1778.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of fortunato Santini, composer   

Jan 10   Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (naming plants & animals) was born in the year 1778.   

Jan 13   In the year 1778 birth of anton Fischer, composer   

Jan 24   On this day in history birth of charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X   

Jan 26   On this day in history birth of ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)   

Jan 31   On this day in history birth of franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)   

Feb 04   A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841) was born in the year 1778.   

Jan 04   Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70 in the year 1778.   

Feb 15   Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Feb 18   On this day in history death of joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)   

Feb 20   Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711) died in the year 1778.   

Mar 05   Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Mar 07   On this day in history death of charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)   

Mar 13   In the year 1778 death of charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)