1778

1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1778th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 778th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1778, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1775 1776 1777 – 1778 – 1779 1780 1781

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 see 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 beginning official recognition of the new republic.
• February 23 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and begins to train the Continental Army.
• July 10 – American Revolutionary War: Louis XVI of France declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
• July 27 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• August 26 – Triglav, at 2,864 metres above sea level the highest peak of Slovenia, was ascended for the first time by four brave men: Luka Korošec, Matevž Kos, Štefan Rožič and Lovrenc Willomitzer on Sigismund Zois's initiative.
• 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.
• The first settlement was made in the area of what is now Louisville, Kentucky by 13 families under Col. George Rogers Clark.
• Phillips Academy, the most prestigious secondary boarding school in the United States, was founded by Samuel Phillips Jr.

Births

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1778 Media

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  January 18: Britain's Captain Cook and crew become first Europeans to land on Hawaiian Islands

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  June 28: Battle of Monmouth

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  November 26: Captain Cook lands on Maui.

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  Thomas Herring Lincoln (1778-1851) the father of Abraham Lincoln. This is the only known original and is located in the archives of the (Source) museum.

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  • Most canonical portrait of José de San Martín.
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  Self-portrait by William Hazlitt

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  Portrait of the Rev. Dr. Harry Croswell, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, circa 1835.

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  Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

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  Portrait of Bernardo O'Higgins holding the Chilean Constitution.

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  ClemensBrentano

Deaths

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