* 1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist ( d. 1778 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

* 1720 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor ( d. 1778 )

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

* 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian educator and nationalist ( d. 1852 )

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Louis Bonaparte ( 1778 – 1846 ) married Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepdaughter

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.

* Jacques le fataliste et son maître, novel ( 1771 – 1778 )

* 1778 – John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 ( d. 1841 )

* 1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist ( d. 1850 )

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

In 1778, during the American War of Independence, the French mounted a successful invasion with the active cooperation of the population, which was largely French.

* 1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist ( d. 1860 )

* 1778 – 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.

Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

* 1716 – Philip Livingston, American founding father ( d. 1778 )

* 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( b. 1716 )

* 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.

In 1778, Simcoe, during a foraging expedition opposed by rebel militia, commanded the attack on Judge William Hancock's house, killing 20 American rebels in their sleep and wounding 12 others.

* 1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.

* 1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

During the American Revolution, " the mid-Atlantic work " ( as Wesley called it ) diminished, and, by 1778, the work was reduced to one circuit.

* 1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

The Kingdom of France had been a critical ally of the United States in the American Revolutionary War from the spring of 1776, and had signed in 1778 a Treaty of Alliance with the United States.

Portsmouth was the site of the first African American military unit, the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, to fight for the U. S. in the Battle of Rhode Island of August 29, 1778.

When the American Revolution began, American ships were protected by the 1778 alliance with France, which required the French nation to protect " American vessels and effects against all violence, insults, attacks ...".

Louis intervened in the American Revolution against Britain in 1778, but he is most remembered for his role in the French Revolution.

However, as the American Revolution got underway, the citizens changed its name to Shenandoah County in 1778.

During the American Revolution a small fort was constructed in 1778 at Fort Plain village.

He took part in public affairs at the beginning of the American Revolution, he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court ( Legislature ) from 1771 until 1775, a delegate to the Provincial congress from 1774 until 1775, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781.

The city is named for General George Rogers Clark, who gained fame on the frontier by his many expeditions against the British and Indians in the Indian Wars and the war of the American Revolution, particularly by his capture of Fort of Vincennes, now in the State of Indiana, in 1778.

Phillips Academy was founded during the American Revolution as an all-boys school in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr., a member of the revolutionary war family, the Phillipses.

Delegates of King Louis XVI of France and the Second Continental Congress, who represented the United States government at this time, signed the treaty along with The Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris on February 6, 1778 formalizing a Franco-American alliance that would technically remain in effect until 1800, and the signing of the Treaty of Mortefontaine, despite being annulled by the United States Congress in 1798 and the execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution.

Diplomacy and Revolution: the Franco – American Alliance of 1778 ( Charlottesville: Univ.

These wars were the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1744 – 1748 ), the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the War of the American Revolution ( 1778 – 1783 ), the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1793 – 1802 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

In 1778, during the American Revolution, forty-seven village residents were killed by a British and Iroquois raiding party, an event to become known as the Cherry Valley Massacre.

* The History of England From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 ( 1778 ) Volume VI

However, since the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 passed during the American Revolution, the British Parliament has never again attempted to directly impose taxation upon any of its colonies ( today known as British overseas territories ).

) During the American Revolution, General George Rogers Clark took possession of the village in 1778.

He became Governor of the Province of Quebec ( which at the time included what is now Ontario ) in 1778, serving through the American Revolution.

The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, place in New Jersey, USA, during the American Revolution.

* Battle of Wyoming ( 1778 ), in the American Revolution

White Eyes, named Koquethagechton ( c. 1730 – November 1778 ), was a leader of the Lenape ( Delaware ) people in the Ohio Country during the era of the American Revolution.