* 1778 – John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 ( d. 1841 )

* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of lignum vitae wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778.

Engraving in British cartographer John Hamilton Moore's 1778 book Voyages and Travels labeled " Natives of the Caribee, feasting on human flesh ".

Originating about 1650 to 1700, it was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), physicist Isaac Newton ( 1643 – 1727 ), and philosopher Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ).

After the death of their mother, in 1778, John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire and Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire ; she and William would not meet again for another nine years.

* John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton ( 1778 – 1863 ) 1843 – 1849

John Paul Jones became notorious in Britain for his expedition from France in the little sloop of war Ranger in April 1778, during which, in addition to his attacks on merchant shipping, he made two landings on British soil.

* John Adams, ( 1778 – 1854 ), born in Oak Hill, United States Congressman

A large stone cross stands in the center of the campo santo ( cemetery ), first consecrated in 1778 and then again on January 29, 1939 by the Los Angeles Archbishop John Cantwell.

Around Monte Rosa, the Vincent family, Josef Zumstein ( 1783 – 1861 ), and Giovanni Gnifetti ( 1801 – 1867 ) did good work during the half century between 1778 and 1842, while in the Eastern Alps the Archduke John ( 1782 – 1850 ), Prince F. J. C. von Schwarzenberg, archbishop of Salzburg ( 1809 – 1885 ), Valentine Stanig ( 1774 – 1847 ), Adolf Schaubach ( 1800 – 1850 ), above all, P. J.

* July 3, 1778: A force of British and Tories led by John Butler, with the assistance of about 700 Indians, attacked and killed nearly 300 Wyoming Valley settlers.

In April 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, John Paul Jones, in command of the American ship Ranger, attempted to capture a British Royal Navy sloop of war, HMS Drake, moored at Carrickfergus.

In June 1778, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism famously preached both in the new preaching house in Downpatrick and in The Grove beside the ruins of Down Cathedral which he called a " noble ruin ".

In 1778, John and David Brainerd came to the area and erected a church to convert the local Native Americans to Christianity.

* John Adams, ( 1778 – 1854 ), United States Congressman from New York, taught school and practiced law here.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

John Knowles died about January 1778.

A force of British and Tories led by John Butler, with the assistance of about 700 Native Americans, attacked the outnumbered Wyoming Valley settlers on 3 July 1778, north of Wyoming in what is now Exeter.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

In America, Deane was defended by John Jay and John Adams in 1778 in a long and bitter dispute before Congress, whose requests for copies of his receipts and disbursements were refused by France ; since France had not officially made alliance with the Thirteen Colonies until February 6, 1778, they felt that any such evidence of their prior involvement would be a diplomatic embarrassment.

* John Adams ( New York ) ( 1778 – 1854 ), United States Congressman from New York

The town was officially incorporated in 1778 as Adams, named in honor of Samuel Adams, revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence and later governor.

, under the command of Captains Hector McNeill and Samuel Tucker, had captured 17 prizes in earlier cruises, and had carried John Adams to France in February and March 1778.

Even with the impassioned defense of John Adams, the Continental Congress voted on 2 January 1778 to relieve Hopkins of his command permanently.

Adams was chosen as a delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779, and signed the Articles of Confederation.

He served as a surgeon aboard the American frigate " Boston " in 1778 when John Adams traveled on the " Boston " while American commissioner to France.

In 1778 came Adam's First Awaking and First Happy Nights ( Adams erstes Erwachen ; 2nd revised edition, 1779 ).

* Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, Silas Deane ( substituted by John Adams in 1778 ) Dec. 1776 – 1779

Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot ( 1771 ), Benjamin Franklin ( 1778-09 ), Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1778 ), Voltaire ( 1781 ), Molière ( 1781 ), George Washington ( 1785 – 88 ), Thomas Jefferson ( 1789 ), Louis XVI ( 1790 ), Robert Fulton, 1803 – 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1806 ).

In 1772, a road was built through Pinkham Notch, and the area was first settled in 1778 by Benjamin Copp and his family.

During the Revolutionary War, General Benjamin Lincoln oversaw the evacuation of Boston from here in 1778.

He was the son of Benjamin Peirce ( 1778 – 1831 ), later librarian of Harvard, and Lydia Ropes Nichols Peirce ( 1781 – 1868 ).

Benjamin Hall, FRS ( September 29, 1778 – July 31, 1817 ) was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.

* Bladen County: Thomas Amis, elected to another office, seat declared vacant May 2, 1778 ; Benjamin Clark elected to replace Amis, took office August 8, 1778

* Tyrrell County: Isham Webb, died April 1778 ; Benjamin Spruill elected to replace Webb, took office August 8, 1778

After the failure to capture St. Augustine, Howe was replaced in 1778 as commander of the Southern Department by Gen. Benjamin Lincoln.

Later, in Paris, after helping to negotiate the Treaty of Alliance ( 1778 ) with France, he fell out with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane.

He participated in Benjamin Franklin's mission to Paris in 1776-8, represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779 and was the principal diplomat for the United States to Spain from 1782 to 1794.

Dr. Benjamin Church ( August 24, 1734 – 1778 ) was effectively the first Surgeon General of the U. S. Army, serving as the " Chief Physician & Director General " of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775 to October 17, 1775.

General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding those forces, knew that he could not recapture Savannah without naval assistance ; for this he turned to the French, who had entered the war as an American ally in 1778.

The most successful history painters, who were not afraid of buttons and wigs, were both Americans settled in London: Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, though one of his most successful works Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ) was able to mostly avoid them, showing a rescue from drowning.

Benjamin was appointed in 1778 as one of the first set of justices to the Court of Appeals, which was the highest court in the state.

* Benjamin Bowring ( 1778 – 1846 ), English-Canadian businessman

* Benjamin Franklin — Appointed Sep 14, 1778 ; Presented credentials Mar 23, 1779 ; Termination of mission May 17, 1785

Benjamin Ames ( October 30, 1778 – September 28, 1835 ) was the third Governor of the U. S. state of Maine, who served from December 5, 1821 to January 2, 1822.

He was finally paroled in August 1778, having been exchanged for William Franklin, Loyalist Governor of New Jersey, and Benjamin Franklin's son.