Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

In 1778, during the American War of Independence, the French mounted a successful invasion with the active cooperation of the population, which was largely French.

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.

* 1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

Richard Somers ( 1778 or 1779 – 4 September 1804 ) was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during a daring assault on Tripoli.

He was made Commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the West Indies in 1778 and 1779 during the American War of Independence.

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.

In 1778, He published his method of reducing Lunar Distances for computing the longitude, still regarded as the best of several similar mathematical procedures for navigation and position-fixing in pre-chronometer days ; and used, for example, by Lewis and Clarke to measure their latitude and longitude during their exploration of the North-western United States.

Vancouver Island came to the attention of Britain after the third voyage of Captain James Cook, who spent a month during 1778 at Nootka Sound, on the island's western coast.

None became musicians and Johann Sebastian, a promising painter, died in his twenties during a 1778 trip to Italy.

For three and a half years no further action was taken, during which time the Continental Congress was forced out of Philadelphia before returning in 1778.

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.

He was later unintentionally killed by the British in the American Revolutionary War during the massacre of Hancock House committed by the British against local militia during the Salem Raid in 1778.

It is not known how long the theatre remained on the site, but it was reinvigorated in 1777 and during 1778 George Frederick Cooke acted there, but in the winter of 1779 it was destroyed in fire.

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 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, George Rogers Clark set up a court in Cahokia, because in earlier years Cahokia was an independent city state.

In 1778, the Battle of Freetown, was fought here during the American Revolutionary War, the townspeople put up a strong defense against a British force.

Hessians occupied the town in 1776, and the British pillaged and razed the town during May and June 1778.

A home in Cranbury was used by Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette as a headquarters during the American Revolutionary War, and they were visited by General George Washington on June 26, 1778.

Marlboro was the scene of a number of skirmishes during the American Revolutionary War, in particular following the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.

In addition to intermittent raids, during the American Revolutionary War, the village was attacked in September 1778 by British forces, as well as Iroquois led by the Mohawk chief Joseph Brant.

On February 7, 1778, when Boone was hunting meat for the expedition, he was surprised and captured by warriors led by Chief Blackfish of the Chilicothe Shawnee.

In 1778, Joseph Brant, native leader, led an expedition that burned the town and took captives.

Hartley's expedition in 1778 preceded the Sullivan Expedition of 1779.

But that this was not entirely because of the expedition can be seen as John Butler wrote: " The Indians in this part of the Country are so ill off for Provisions that many have nothing to subsist upon but the roots and greens they gather in the woods " in May, 1778 – i. e., before the expedition.

In 1778, Pinckney and his regiment, returning to the South, took part in a failed American expedition attempting to seize British East Florida.

Other Europeans to visit Cook Inlet include the 1778 expedition of James Cook who sailed into it while searching for the Northwest Passage.

An expedition in December 1778 took Savannah with modest resistance from ineffective militia and Continental Army defenses.

* In 1778, a merchant from Yakutsk by the name of Pavel Lebedev-Lastochkin arrived in Hokkaidō with a small expedition.

Todd served in the Virginia legislature in 1776 and then participated in the expedition led by George Rogers Clark against Kaskaskia and Vincennes that captured the Illinois Country from the British in 1778.

Kenton served as scout on the famous 1778 George Rogers Clark expedition to capture Fort Sackville and also fought with " Mad " Anthony Wayne in the Northwest Indian War in 1793-94.

It was now 1778, and the expedition met with the Lords of Matsumae clan, the Japanese guardians of the northern borders, for the first time.

Hartley's expedition in 1778 preceded the Sullivan Expedition of 1779.

In 1778, he became chaplain to General Jonathan Titcomb's brigade and took part in General John Sullivan's expedition to Rhode Island.

Although the skirmishes between the Patriots and the Loyalists continued, the 1778 expedition was the last of Georgia ’ s attempts to throw the British out of Florida.

The New York expedition, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell, arrived first, and successfully captured the town on December 29, 1778.

" The Jeffersonians were opposed to Britain, preferring support for France in the wars raging in Europe, and they argued that the treaty with France from 1778 was still in effect.

All his life, Vaillant opposed to theses Tournefort ; for this he was dedicated, however, a genus Valantia, as Carl von Linné ( 1707 – 1778 ) later changed in Vaillantia ( family Rubiaceae ).

In 1778 the American rebels formed an alliance with France, which Arnold was very much opposed to ( as demonstrated by the letter ).