* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.

In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.

* 1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.

* 1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

Portsmouth was the site of the first African American military unit, the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, to fight for the U. S. in the Battle of Rhode Island of August 29, 1778.

In the summer of 1778, the Americans began the campaign known as the Battle of Rhode Island.

Battle of Wyoming in 1778

At the June 28, 1778, Battle of Monmouth, near Freehold, General George Washington's soldiers battled the British under Sir Henry Clinton, in the longest land battle of the American Revolutionary War.

( 1778 – 1852 ), who served under Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, was a lifelong Hayes resident

During the 1778 Battle of Monmouth, Ramsay was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and commanded the 3rd Battalion of the Maryland Regiment.

In 1811, Col. Joseph Durfee, the Revolutionary War veteran and hero of the Battle of Freetown in 1778 built the Globe Manufactory ( a spinning mill ) at the outlet of Cook Pond on Dwelly St. near what is now Globe Four Corners in the city's South End.

At the Battle of Monmouth, an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, American General Charles Lee led the advance and initiated the first attack on the column's rear.

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

An Indian uprising, the Battle of Wyoming, in mid-summer of 1778, caused the Eves family to flee their home in the Valley and take refuge at a stockade near Washingtonville.

In the vicinity of this fort occurred, in 1778, the Battle of Wyoming.

On July 4, 1778 ( one day after the Battle of Wyoming ), a group of British soldiers took over the fortress and some of it was destroyed.

The Wyoming Monument marks the gravesite of victims of the July 1778 Battle of Wyoming.

After the Battle of Wyoming in the summer of 1778 ( near what is now Wilkes-Barre ) and smaller local attacks, the " Big Runaway " occurred throughout the West Branch Susquehanna valley.

After the Battle of Wyoming in the summer of 1778 ( near what is now Wilkes-Barre ) and smaller local attacks, the " Big Runaway " occurred throughout the West Branch Susquehanna valley.

The Battle of Crooked Billet was fought in 1778.

And here passed retreating English troops after their 1778 defeat by Washington at the Battle of Monmouth.

* 1778 – Battle of Barren Hill ( May 20 )

* 1778 – Battle of Monmouth ( June 28 )

Men from the Tiverton outpost took part in the Battle of Freetown, on May 25, 1778, during the Revolutionary War.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

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 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

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.

When Voltaire died in 1778, the church denied him a church burial, and his body was interred near a monastery.

First imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, he was paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange in 1778.

His capture ended his participation in the revolution until 1778, as he was imprisoned by the British.

On May 3, 1778 he was transferred to Staten Island.

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.

From around 1778, a larger " heavy " frigate was developed with a main battery of twenty-six or twenty-eight 18-pounder guns ( again with the remaining ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle ).

The word geology was first used by Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, then by Jean-André Deluc in 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1779.

The leader of the French Enlightenment and a writer of enormous influence across Europe, was Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ).

Davy was born in Penzance, Cornwall, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, on 17 December 1778.

Since cast iron was becoming cheaper and more plentiful, it also became a major structural material following the building of the innovative Iron Bridge in 1778 by Abraham Darby III.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (; 28 June 17122 July 1778 ) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression.