The reluctant parliament was forced to cough up enough funds to dispatch an expeditionary force of around 15, 000 troops under the Duke of Monmouth to Flanders in May, 1678.

On 9 November 1678, Charles promised that he would sign any bill that would make them safe during the reign of his successor, so long as they did not impeach the right of his successor ; this speech was widely misreported as Charles ' having agreed to name the Duke of Monmouth as his successor, leading to celebratory bonfires throughout London, with crowds drinking the health of " the King, the Duke of Monmouth, and Earl of Shaftesbury, as the only three pillars of all safety.

On 21 August 1679, the king fell ill, leading Essex and Halifax ( who feared Monmouth was about to launch a coup ) to ask the Duke of York, whom Charles had sent to Brussels in late 1678, to return to England.

The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion ( 1685 ), the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis.

In 1671 he was promoted to the bishopric of Bristol, and in 1678 translated to the see of Chichester, but he was unpopular, and had his palace stoned during a 1679 visit by the Duke of Monmouth.

In 1678, Murray temporarily lost royal favour by counselling moderation concerning the measures taken against the Covenanters, but fought vigorously against the 8th Earl of Argyll in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 and was instrumental in defeating him.

It takes its name from Moor Park, a country house which was originally built in 1678 – 9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni.

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.

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.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

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.

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

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

Peace was fragile, and war broke out again between France and the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ).

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

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

In 1678 Nijmegen was host to the negotiations between the European powers that aimed to put an end to the constant warfare that had ravaged the continent for years.

His great work, entitled The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was published in 1678.

Cudworth was installed prebendary of Gloucester in 1678.

In late 1662 the first part of Hudibras, which he began writing when lodging at Holborn, London in 1658 and continued to work on while in Ludlow, was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively.

Simon Ockley ( 1678 – 9 August 1720 ) was a British Orientalist.

Abraham Darby I ( 1678 – 1717 ) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an Abraham Darby family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

Halley's star catalogue of 1678 was the first to contain telescopically determined locations of southern stars.

More of an influence on Paine than Hume, however, was Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus ( 1678 ).

The modern Conservative Party was founded in 1834 and is an outgrowth of the Tory movement or party, which began in 1678.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

It was conquered a second time in 1674, and was finally ceded to France in the Treaty of Nijmegen ( 1678 ).

It was made up of three regions: parts of the Counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai, which were ceded to France in successive treaties ( 1659, 1668, and 1678 ).

* March 8 – Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution ( b. 1678 )

Year 1678 ( MDCLXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

He had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the English Army by his father in 1672 and Captain-General in 1678, enjoying some successes in the Netherlands in the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

* The Franco-Dutch War, 1672 – 1678, of which the Third Anglo-Dutch War was a part.

*" Irish " John Lewis ( 1678 – 1762 ), opened up what is now Augusta County to settlement.

In 1678, he published a now famous theorem on synthetic geometry in a triangle called Ceva ’ s Theorem.

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.

This region comprised most of modern Belgium excepting the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon and Luxembourg ( including the homonymous present Belgian province ), and in addition some parts of the Netherlands ( namely the Duchy of Limburg, now divided between the Dutch province of Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège and Limburg ) as well as, until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.

* Until 1678, the city belonged to the Spanish Netherlands ( now called Belgium ).

The first major settler in the area was William Robinson who built a house in 1678 on what is now Freeman Street.

Rededicated in 1678, it now consisted of an oratory, dormitories, schoolrooms, a library, a refectory, upper and lower cloisters, a dispensary and an apothecary, and an Andalusian-style courtyard built around a well.

However, a letter written to him by the governor of Pernambuco in 1678 and now found in the Archives of the University of Coimbra, calls him " Ganazumba ," which is a better translation of " Great Lord " ( in Kimbundu ) and thus was probably his name.

The Glossarium ad scriptores media et infirmae latinitatis completed in 1678 by Charles du Fresne ( commonly referred to as Du Cange after the author's title, the Sieur du Cange ) is now less frequently used, as Niermeyer's Lexicon Minus incorporates much of its information.

Date Muneyoshi or Tamura Muneyoshi ( 1637 – 1678 ) settled himself at Ichinoseki domain ( 30, 000 koku ) in Mutsu province ( now in Iwate Prefecture ), where his descendants resided up through 1868.