Fires were a major danger in London at the time: the Great Fire destroyed more than 13, 000 houses and displaced about 100, 000 people, and another conflagration in 1678 damaged the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court.

By 1678, the number of houses increased to seven, six of which belonged to the Pogost priests and one to a peasant.

In 1563, it had one house but there were four houses there by 1678.

The present-day Unitarian Church, built in Gothic style in the 13th century, redecorated in 1599, houses a silver cup from 1636, as well as a silver plate and a bell dating from 1678.

The Billop family, who built the estate in 1678, continued to own it and the surrounding property at the time the 1776 meeting took place, but in 1784 their land was confiscated because the family had been Tories during the war.

In 1677, the armies of Louis XIV of France ( this time led by Vauban ) captured the city and in 1678 the Treaty of Nijmegen gave the French control of Valenciennes ( 1678 ) and the surrounding southern part of Hainault, roughly cutting the former county in half.

In 1678, Colonel John Page ( Middle Plantation ), a wealthy colonist, donated a plot of land about by and funds for building a brick church and for the surrounding churchyard at Middle Plantation.

Thomas Hearne or Hearn ( July 1678 – 10 June 1735 ), English antiquary, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire.

Thomas Hearne was born at Littlefield Green in 1678.

Gale's death in 1678 forestalled this plan ; instead, he attended another grammar school and then studied at Dissenting academies under Edward Veel ( or Veal ) in Stepney and then Charles Morton in Newington Green, where Gale had lived.

The area of the town was purchased from the natives for some trinkets in 1678 and settlement followed.

It gained land from Upland County on November 12, 1678.

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.

The house began in 1678 as a simple structure of two or possibly three rooms on land owned by Tristram Coffin, Jr. About 1713 the house was more than doubled in size, with new partitions added.

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.

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.

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.

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

molécule ( 1678 ), from Mod. L.

French troops occupied Maastricht from 1673 to 1678.

The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel.

In his 1678 Traité de la Lumiere, Christiaan Huygens showed how Snell's law of sines could be explained by, or derived from, the wave nature of light, using what we have come to call the Huygens – Fresnel principle.

* 1678: Ferdinand Verbiest built a model carriage relying on a steam jet for power. Sketch of John Barber's gas turbine, from his patent

W. Reader dates the first Godiva procession to 1677, but other sources date the first parade to 1678, and on that year a lad from the household of James Swinnerton enacted the role of Lady Godiva .</ br >

Settlers from Derby, Connecticut settled Beacon Falls in 1678.

Walter was a Quaker who emigrated from England and arrived in Burlington, New Jersey, on a " boat load of Quakers " in 1678.

From 1660 to 1792 Urk and Emmeloord belonged to the municipality of Amsterdam, and ruled from 1660 to 1672 / 1678 by Andries de Graeff.

An allegorical novel, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come was published by John Bunyan in 1678.

In the years 1678 and 1715, Rügen was briefly wrested from the Swedes by the Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William and by the King in Prussia, Frederick William I.

There was a swing away from comedy to serious political drama, reflecting preoccupations and divisions following on the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis ( 1682 ).

When she became pregnant, her marriage was announced publicly ( on 1 October 1678 ), and Sarah retired from the court to give birth to her first child, Harriet, who died in infancy.

In 1678, Charles II withheld his Assent from a bill " for preserving the Peace of the Kingdom by raising the Militia, and continuing them in Duty for Two and Forty Days ," suggesting that he, not Parliament, should control the militia.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678.

Count Rutger von Ascheberg ( June 2, 1621 – April 17, 1693 ) was a soldier, officer and civil servant in Swedish service, being appointed Lieutenant General in 1670, General in 1674, Field Marshal in 1678, Governor General of the Scanian provinces, in 1680, and Royal Councilor in 1681.

On 26 August 1678 he died, being seventy-two years of age.

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.

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.

The allegations in Sacheverell's report on the examination of Coleman prompted the country party to demand the exclusion of James, Duke of York, from the succession to the throne, the first suggestion of the famous Exclusion Bill being made by Sacheverell on 4 November 1678 in a debate --" the greatest that ever was in Parliament ," as it was pronounced by contemporaries — raised by Lord Russell with the object of removing the duke from the King's Council.

Castor was discovered to be a visual binary in 1678, with the magnitude of its components being 2. 0 and 2. 9 ( the combined magnitude is 1. 58 ).

He ceased to be viceroy of Sicily in 1678, being replaced by Vicente de Gonzaga y Doria, ( 1602 – 1694 ) former Viceroy of Catalonia, 1664 – 1667, not to be confounded with his nephew Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, ( 1634 – 1714 ).

Goudelin essayed and was successful in almost every short genre ( Lou Ramelet Moundi, 1617, republished with additions till 1678 ), the piece of his which is most generally admired being the stanzas to Henry IV of France, though others will prefer him in his gayer moods.

In 1678, after 22 years of ministry to the Catholics of the nation, he was apprehended under suspicion of being a party to the Titus Oates plot and sent to the Worcester jail.

He is first mentioned in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey for January 14, 1676, although no printed notice of the new hangman occurred until 2 December 1678, when a broadside appeared called The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and Wholesome Physick for a Popish Contagion.

On 15 February 1677, in the debate on the 15 months ' prorogation ( being an extremely lengthy period between sessions of Parliament ), he moved the dissolution of Parliament ; and in March 1678 he seconded the address asking the king to declare war against France.

French Flanders, which gradually became part of France between 1659 and 1678, was historically part of the Dutch sprachraum, the native dialect being West Flemish.

Bowne became a merchant and married well, his wife Hannah Feake ( ca. 1637 – 1678 ), whom he married in 1656, being a great-niece of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts.