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Chronological table

**1778 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1778 MDCCLXXVIII
Julian calendar	1777-1778 (from January 12 )
Julian calendar with the Byzantine era	7286-7287 (since September 12 )
From the foundation of Rome	2530-2531 (from May 2 )
Jewish calendar	5538–5539 ה'תקל"ח - ה'תקל"ט
Islamic calendar	1192-1193
Ancient Armenian calendar	4270-4271 (from August 22 )
Armenian church calendar	1227 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԷ
Chinese calendar	4474—4475 丁酉 - 戊戌 red cock - yellow dog
Ethiopian calendar	1770 - 1771
Old Indian calendar
- Vikram Samvat	1834-1835
- Shaka Samvat	1700-1701
- Kali Yuga	4879—4880
Iranian calendar	1156-1157
Buddhist calendar	2321
Japanese chronology	7th year Anyei

1778 (one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eighth) year according to the Gregorian calendar is a non-leap year starting on Thursday . This is 1778 year of our era , 778 year of 2 millenniums , 78 year of the 18th century , 8 year of the 8th decade of the 18th century, 9 year of the 1770s .

Content

World Events

1778-1779 - War for the Bavarian legacy of Austria against Prussia and Saxony .
Danish Minister Bernstorf has put forward five principles of international law.
The strike in Lyon .
Florida Blanca Reform. Establishment of free trade of Spanish ports with American colonies.
The Great Fellah Rebellion in Tanta County.
February 6 - French Foreign Minister Count de Vergenne and Benjamin Franklin signed an agreement on trade and union between France and the USA in Paris. France pledged not to lay down arms until England recognized US independence, and entered the war against England ^[1] . The British turned to the United States with peaceful proposals, but Congress demanded complete independence.
The British, with the help of Indian tribes, captured a large territory in the West . December - The British army landed in Georgia and captured the Savannah .
Discovery of the tar sands field in Athabasca, Canada (Alberta).

Events in the Russian Empire

Founded cities: Mariupol , Kherson , Verkhnyaya Salda
The status of the city received: Egorievsk , Pokrov ( September 12 ), Shuya , Kovrov , Zaraysk .
Organized by the Russian government, the eviction of the Christian population of Crimea in the Sea of Azov .
In the Lower Volga region this winter was abnormally cold. It is said that birds froze in flight and fell dead ^[2] .
September 6 - Ryazan governorship is created. Mikhail Nikitich Krechetnikov becomes the first Governor-General of Viceroyalty.

Science

Music

Born

See also: Category: Born in 1778

List

January 1 - Charles Alexander Lesueur , French traveler and artist, worked on the scientific systematization of the animal world (d. 1846 )
January 15 - Jean-Antoine Alavouan , French architect; erected the July Column in Paris on Bastille Square (d. 1834 )
January 15 - Francis-Xavier Drutsky-Lyubetsky , Prince, Russian statesman (d. 1846 )
February 4 - Augustin Piram Decandol , the largest Swiss and French botanist, one of the first systematizers of plants (d. 1841 )
February 6 - Hugo Foscolo , Italian poet and philologist (d. 1827 )
February 14 - Fernando Sor , Spanish virtuoso guitarist , music teacher and composer (d. 1839 )
February 19 - Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn , Baron, Russian and German general ; since 1795 participated in battles against Napoleon as part of the Austrian and Russian army (d. 1845 )
February 25 - Jose de San Martin , one of the leaders of the War of Independence in Latin America , the national hero of Argentina (d. 1850 )
March 28 - Alexei Fedorovich Merzlyakov , Russian poet, literary critic , translator , professor at Moscow University; among his students at the Moscow Noble Boardinghouse was M. Yu. Lermontov (d. 1830 )
April 10 - William Hazlitt , English writer, essayist , major literary and artistic critic of his time (d. 1830 )
May 15 - Christian (Christian) Georg Hornbostel - Austrian entrepreneur; founder of the National Bank of Austria.
July 3 - Karl Ludwig Engel , born in Germany, a Finnish architect , who influenced the architectural appearance of Helsinki of the XIX century (d. 1840 )
July 6 - Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent , French zoologist , botanist , geologist and geographer (d. 1846 )
September 9 - Clemens Brentano , German writer and poet from the galaxy of Heidelberg romantics (d. 1842 )
September 20 - Thaddeus Falleevich Bellingshausen , Russian navigator , admiral , one of the discoverers of Antarctica (d. 1852 )
September 21 - Karl Ludwig Koch , a German entomologist specializing in arachnids (d. 1857 )
September 2 - Louis I Bonaparte , brother of Napoleon I , father of Napoleon III ; from 1806 to 1810 - king of the Kingdom of Holland (d. 1846 )
October 5 - Ernst Ludwig von Astaire , prominent Prussian military engineer ; built fortresses in Torgau , Cologne , Koblenz (d. 1855 )
October 11 - George Augustas Polgreen Bridgetower , British violinist (d. 1860 )
August 20 - Bernardo O'Higgins , revolutionary, national hero of Chile , leader of the struggle for the independence of the Spanish colonies in South America , High Ruler of Chile (d. 1842 ).
November 1 - Gustav IV Adolf , Swedish king from 1792 to 1809 (d. 1837 )
November 5 - Giovanni Battista Belzoni , prolific Italian researcher of antiquities, pioneer of Egyptology (d. 1823 )
November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Gummel , Austrian composer , conductor , teacher and pianist virtuoso (d. 1837 )
December 6 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , the largest French physicist and chemist (d. 1850 )
December 17 - Humphrey Davy , an English chemist , physicist and geologist , patronized Faraday (d. 1829 )
December 29 - Johann Simon Hermstedt , German clarinet virtuoso (d. 1846 )

Died

See also: Category: Deaths in 1778