He also linked the murder of Gloucester to the recent assassination of Edmund Berry Godfrey, an incident which had led to an outbreak of anti-Catholic hysteria in London in 1678.

Titus Oates ( 1649-1705 ), whose accusations in autumn 1678 that there was a Popish Plot to murder the king and massacre English Protestants, set off a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria.

In October 1678 Primrose Hill was the scene of the mysterious murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey, and in 1792 the radical Unitarian poet and antiquarian Iolo Morganwg ( Edward Williams ) organised here the first meeting of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain.

His disappearance on 12 October 1678, the finding of his body on 17 October, and the subsequent failure to solve his murder sent the Protestant population into an uproar.

His earliest writings, which were anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland: the execution of James Mitchell on a charge of having attempted to murder Archbishop James Sharp, and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, for high treason and rebellion ( Ravillac Redivivus, 1678 ; The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants, 1680 ).

Then in 1678, following the lead of Titus Oates, he gave an account of a supposed popish plot to the English government, and his version of the details of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was rewarded with £ 500.

The alarms which culminated in the " discovery " in 1678 of the Popish Plot to murder King Charles II and replace him with James, his Roman Catholic brother, appear to have affected Russell more than his otherwise sober character would have led people to expect.

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.

The current manor was originally built in 1678 by Sir William Pritchard on land bought from the Napier family on the site of an older medieval manor.

Sir Edward Seymour ( MP for Totnes and Treasurer of the Navy ) replaced him, and served as Speaker until the 1678 session, when the speakership went to the Sir Robert Sawyer ( MP for High Wycombe ).

On 6 September 1678, Oates and Tonge approached an Anglican magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey.

Sir Edmund Andros, appointed by James II as governor of New York, negotiated a treaty with some of the northern Indian bands in Maine on April 12, 1678, as he tried to establish his New York-based royal power structure in Maine's fishing industry.

After a brief period employed as private chaplain to the wife of Sir William Scott of Harden in 1675, Cameron was dismissed from service for refusing to attend the parish church on the Sabbath .. With Welwood ’ s encouragement Cameron became increasingly religiously active and was eventually licensed as a field preacher in 1678.

* 1678: Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat ( later 1st Earl of Cromartie )

* Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, historian, also known as Sir Peter Leicester ( 1614 – 1678 )

After a period of comparative inactivity Sir Joseph represented England at the Congress of Nijmegen, and in 1678 he signed the first treaty for the partition of the Spanish Monarchy.

* Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet ( died 1678 )

* Sir William Forester ( 1655 – 1718 ), his son, inherited Dothill from his half-brother, Richard Steventon ( died 1659 ), in about 1675, and beceme a Member of Parliament in 1678.

* Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet ( 1678 – 1732 )

* Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1627 – 1678 ), Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1656 – 1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659

* Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet ( 1678 – 1743 )

In 1678, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, son of the Marquess of Argyll, successfully invaded the Clan MacLean lands on the Isle of Mull and Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet fled the castle and withdrew to Cairnbulg Castle, and afterward to Kintail under the protection of the Earl of Seaforth.

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey ( 23 December 1621 – 12 October 1678 ) was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England.

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC ( 8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757 ), English diplomatist, was a son of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and a younger brother of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole.

The Scott family descends from Sir John Scott, Baronet ( 1648 – 1712 ), of Ancrum, Roxburghshire in Scotland, whose second son, Captain John Scott ( 1678 – 1740 ), emigrated to New York City, where he received the rights of citizenship in 1702.

He left the Whitgift school in 1678 and took up the post of tutor to the grandsons of a retired Judge, Sir Edward Thurland, in the vicinity of Reigate in Surrey.

* Robert Mann ( 1678 – 1751 ), father of Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet

His first wife was Anne Villiers ( before 1633-30 November 1688 ), daughter of Sir Edward Villiers and his wife Lady Frances Howard, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk, whom he married on 1 February 1678.

** Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate ( d. 1678 )

* 1678 — Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey

As Kenyon commented, “ Next day, the 18th, James wrote to William of Orange that Godfrey ’ s death was already ‘ laid against the Catholics ’, and even he, never the most realistic of men, feared that ‘ all these things happening together will cause a great flame in the Parliament .’” The Lords asked King Charles to banish all Catholics from a radius of 20 miles around London, which Charles granted on October 30th, 1678, but it was too late because London was already in a panic.

In 1678 Godfrey became involved with the schemes of Titus Oates when Oates invented the Popish Plot and began an anti-Catholic campaign.

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.