* 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.

* Mary Anne Wedgwood ( 1778 – 86 ) ( died as a child )

During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).

In 1778, Jefferson's " Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge " and subsequent efforts to reduce control by clergy led to some small changes at William and Mary College, but free public education was not established until the late nineteenth century.

* August 29 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer ( b. 1778 )

A younger sister, Mary Ann Turner, was born in September 1778 but died aged four in August 1783.

On 11 March 1799, he married Mary ( 1778 – 1855 ), only child of William Hamilton Nisbet, of Dirleton ; They had a son and three daughters:

Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R. N.

** Mary Robinson, the " Maid of Buttermere " ( born 1778 )

Prince Adolphus aged four, with his two younger sisters Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh | Mary and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom | Sophia in 1778

William Blount married Mary Grainger in 1778, and they had six children: Ann, Mary Louisa, William Grainger, Richard Blackledge, Barbara and Eliza.

Mercy Otis was born on September 24, 1728, the 3rd child of 13 children and first daughter of Colonel James Otis ( 1702 – 1778 ) and Mary Allyne Otis ( 1702 – 1774 ).

* Mary Anne Galton ( 1778 – 1856 ), married Lambert Schimmelpenick in 1806

* Historical reference, as used by Mary Rogers Bangs in Old Cape Cod ( 1917 ): In December of 1778, the Federal brig General Arnold, Magee master and twelve Barnstable men among the crew, drove ashore on the Plymouth flats during a furious nor ' easter, the " Magee storm " that mariners, for years after, used as a date to reckon from.

Mary Anne Talbot ( February 2, 1778 – February 4, 1808 ) was an Englishwoman who wore male dress and became a sailor during the Napoleonic wars.

Also, in 1778 at the battle of Monmouth, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley fired her husband's cannon after he was wounded in battle.

The novelist Mary Brunton was born Mary Balfour on Burray on 1 November 1778.

* Mary " Polly " Jefferson ( 1778 – 1804 )

On 20 October 1778, Boyle Roche married Mary Frankland of Great Thirkleby Hall, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt, whose family name goes back to the time of William the Conqueror.

Two years after he left the College of New Jersey ( 1778 ), John Brown enrolled at The College of William & Mary where he studied law.

Mary Robinson ( 1778 – 1837 ), known as the " Maid of Buttermere " and the subject of Melvyn Bragg's novel of that name, was the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in Buttermere village.

** Anne Steele, hymn-writer ( d. 1778 )

On August 8, 1778, Lamarck married Marie Anne Rosalie Delaporte.

He married Anne, daughter of Henry Emlyn, in 1778.

After the British evacuated Philadelphia, John and Anne Penn returned to the city in July 1778.

By 28 November 1778, he had returned to St George's, Hanover Square, London, where he married Anne Breynton ( 1756 – 15 August 1829 ), the daughter of the famous minister in Nova Scotia, Rev Dr John Breynton ( 1719 – 1799 ).

Biographies of Margaret Baxter ( 1639 – 1681 ), Sarah Edwards ( 1710 – 1758 ), Anne Steele ( 1717 – 1778 ) and Frances Ridley Havergal

In 1778 he divided his time between two London addresses occupied by his mistresses, Brooker and Anne Perry.

He was born near Oaklands in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1778 ; attended St. John ’ s College, Annapolis, Maryland ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice.

He married in Paris on 3 February 1749 Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon ( Paris, 1729-Paris, 12 March 1778 ), daughter of Alexandre de Vernon and Anne du Vivier, and had two sons:

Anne Steele ( 1717 – November 11, 1778 ), English hymn writer, was born at Broughton, Hampshire.