He attended Boston Latin School, where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame, and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15.

Holworthy was founded in 1812 in honor of a wealthy English merchant, Sir Matthew Holworthy, who died in 1678 having bequeathed £ 1, 000 to Harvard — then the largest donation in the college's history — " for the promotion of learning and the promulgation of the Gospel " in Cambridge.

The eldest son of Richard Grenville ( 1678 – 1727 ) of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire and of Hester, later Countess Temple, he was educated at Eton College, and in 1734 was returned to Parliament as member for the borough of Buckingham.

He entered Wadham College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner in 1678.

Walker entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1678 but did not take a degree and subsequently joined the Royal Navy.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

In 1678, Huygens proposed that every point to which a luminous disturbance reaches becomes a source of a spherical wave ; the sum of these secondary waves determines the form of the wave at any subsequent time.

* Jones ; J. R. The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678 – 1683, 1961 online edition

Less noted is his published call in 1749 for the roofing-over of Perrault's classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures, both those that had been built against it, in order to form a proper Place du Louvre, and those in the centre of the Cour Carré itself Sections of the palace were in danger of collapse, scarcely touched by royal indifference after 1678 ; work did begin in 1755 to clear the facade of the Louvre, overseen by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Marigny, supervisor of the Bâtiments du Roi.

Roundhead remained in use to describe those with republican tendencies up until the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 ; the term was then superseded by Whig, initially another term with pejorative connotations.

; Holy Trinity Church: built in the years 1619 – 1627 in the baroque style, burned in a fire and was rebuilt in the years 1678 – 1691

An attempt by William to convince his uncle to enter the war against Louis failed in April ; Charles would till the end of that war in 1678 try to negotiate between the two parties, at times pretending to really consider a conflict with France, when such pretence was beneficial to him.

In 1678 he became captain in the Guards, with which he served in Tangier ; in 1685 he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of fusiliers, but gave up his commission shortly after the accession of James II.

* Pleas of the Crown ; A Methodical Summary ( 1678 );

Initially, the Act did not extend to peers ; but in 1678 the Act was extended by a further Act ( 30 Car.

He also advocated with Essay Concerning Preaching ( 1678 ) simple speech, rather than bluntness, in preaching, as Robert South did, with hits at nonconformist sermons ; he was quite aware that the term " plain " takes a great deal of unpacking.

* Histoire critique du Vieux Testament, Paris, 1678 ; A critical history of the Old Testament ( 1682 ), available at archive. org.

He was released in July, and immediately entered into intrigues with Paul Barillon, the French ambassador, with the object of hindering the grant of supplies to the king ; and in 1678 he visited Paris to get the assistance of Louis XIV for the opposition's cause.

An abridgment of his philosophy was given by his friend, the celebrated traveller, François Bernier ( Abrégé de la philosophie de Gassendi, 8 vols., 1678 ; 2nd ed., 7 vols., 1684 ).

Louis XIV had emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe ; but, although he had expanded his realm, the ' Sun King ' remained unsatisfied.

In his own college he completed in 1665 the north side of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's great quadrangle, already begun by his father but abandoned during the Commonwealth ; in 1672, he rebuilt the east side of the Chaplain's quadrangle " with a straight passage under it leading from the cloister into the field ," occupied now by the new Meadow Buildings ; the lodgings of the canon of the third stall in the passage uniting the Tom Quad and Peckwater Quadrangle ( c. 1674 ); a long building joining the Chaplain's quadrangle on the east side in 1677 – 1678 ; and lastly the great Tom Tower gate, begun in June 1681 on the foundation laid by Wolsey and finished in November 1682, to which the bell " great Tom ," after being recast, was transferred from the cathedral in 1683.

Great Sleigh Drive ( 1678 ): Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Spit | Curonian Lagoon ; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, ca.

When parliament met early in 1678 assurances were received from Charles that he had arranged the treaties demanded by the Commons ; but Sacheverell boldly questioned the king's good faith, and warned the Commons that they were being deceived.

When the secret treaty with France became known, confirming Sacheverell's insight, he called for the disbandment of the forces and advocated the refusal of further supplies for military purposes ; and in June 1678 he resolutely opposed Lord Danby's proposal to grant £ 300, 000 per annum to Charles II for life.

He was a member of the committee that drafted the articles of impeachment against Danby in 1678, and was appointed one of the managers of the Commons ; and in 1679, when the impeachment, interrupted by the dissolution of parliament, was resumed in the new parliament, he spoke strongly against the validity of Danby's plea of pardon by the king.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna Viceroy of Aragon, 1678 – 1681, in Spain.

* 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

* 1678 – William Croft, English composer ( d. 1727 )

* 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian ( d. 1743 )

* 1678 – Yongzheng Emperor of China ( d. 1735 )

In November 1678 he was made a Privy Counsellor for Scotland, and in 1680 was raised to the bench as Lord Haddo.

The cellars under the Houses of Parliament continued to be leased out to private individuals until 1678, when news of the Popish Plot broke.

Louis XIV of France conquered parts of Alsace and Lorraine ( 1678 – 1681 ), and had invaded and devastated the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1688 – 1697 ) in the War of Palatinian Succession.

Henry Purcell's earliest anthem Lord, who can tell was composed in 1678.

Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the second HMS Resolution c. 1678

Much of this happened somewhat before the Industrial Revolution, based on innovations by Sir Clement Clerke and others from 1678, using coal reverberatory furnaces known as cupolas.

This technology was applied to lead from 1678 and to copper from 1687.

* 1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect ( b. 1678 )

* 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.

* 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )