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In 1778 when the British commander in North America, William Howe, requested to be relieved, Amherst was considered as a replacement by the government: however, his insistence that it would require 75, 000 troops to fully defeat the rebellion was not acceptable to the government, and Henry Clinton was instead chosen to take over from Howe in America.
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Diamagnets were first discovered when Sebald Justinus Brugmans observed in 1778 that bismuth and antimony were repelled by magnetic fields.
The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogooué Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange of South America ´ s territory Sacramento ( Treaty of El Pardo ).
He served until July 1778, when competing responsibilities forced him to resign.
* 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.
She died in 1778 but her second husband and the son of her sister continued to resist the heirs-at-law's action until 1800 when the Court decided in favour of Sir George's will and George III granted Downing a Royal Charter, marking the official foundation of the college.
Nevertheless, this recorded event and many old records attest the fact that Antiquity thought that Wren had been its Master, at a time when it still held its minute books for the relevant years ( which were lost by Preston at some date after 1778 )
Leopold was widowed in 1778 when Maria Anna died in Paris while accompanying Wolfgang on a job-hunting tour.
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.
On June 16, 1778, when he learned Blackfish was about to return to Boonesborough with a large force, Boone eluded his captors and raced home, covering the to Boonesborough in five days on horseback and, after his horse gave out, on foot.
In 1778, Lieutenant James Cook named the island after the family name of the Duke of Grafton, who was the British Prime Minister when his ship, the HMB Endeavour, had set sail.
No permanent settlers arrived until 1778, when Robert Ogden built his home and constructed an iron forge on lands he had acquired.
With arrival of British troops in Newport in late 1776, Stiles left Newport and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 1777 until 1778, when he became president of Yale until his death.
During the American Revolutionary War, Port Republic provided refuge to the residents of the nearby community of Chestnut Neck when the British Army sacked their town on October 6, 1778.
Danzi remained behind in a Mannheim that was rendered more provincial when Karl Theodor moved his court to Munich in 1778.
The Great Dining Room, now the Library, has been greatly altered and all traces of Carolean decoration removed, first by James Wyatt in 1778 when it was transformed into a drawing room with a vaulted ceiling, and again in 1876, when its use was again changed, this time to a library.
He was not successful, and when his parents died in 1778 used his modest legacy to move to a small country estate at Sustead, near Aylsham in Norfolk.
After the war he fell into disgrace and was not recalled to active employment until 1778, when he was given command of the troops designed to operate against England.
Hidalgo was ordained as a priest in 1778 when he was 25 years old.
He acted in various strolling companies until 1778, when he produced The Crisis ; or, Love and Famine, at Drury Lane.
Captain Cook was recorded seeing Hawaiian villagers riding such boards when he came to Hawaii in 1778.
Cotton spinning and milling were introduced to Oldham when its first mill, Lees Hall, was built by William Clegg in about 1778, the beginning of a spiralling process of urbanisation and socioeconomic transformation.
The province gained importance when Tehran was claimed the capital by the Qajar dynasty in 1778.
Lynch served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Convention from 1769 until 1778, when he became a militia colonel.
1778 and British
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.
* 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.
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
His capture ended his participation in the revolution until 1778, as he was imprisoned by the British.
The British evacuated Philadelphia to New York in 1778, shadowed by Washington.
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
* 1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
* 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer ( d. 1856 )
* 1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador in Naples, purchased it in 1778 from James Byres.
Engraving in British cartographer John Hamilton Moore's 1778 book Voyages and Travels labeled " Natives of the Caribee, feasting on human flesh ".
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 ).
* May 29 – Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist ( b. 1778 )
* January 8 – Edward Pakenham, British general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1778 )
* September 18 – William Hazlitt, British essayist ( b. 1778 )
* August 29 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer ( b. 1778 )
Some of the first freedom suits, court cases in the British Isles to challenge the legality of slavery, took place in Scotland from 1755 to 1778.
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.
Later that year he was captured by British cavalry under Banastre Tarleton and held as a prisoner until exchanged in 1778.
British seafaring Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1778, sailed along the west coast of North America aboard the, mapping the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.
In 1778 they lost fifteen warriors in a British ambush at the Bronx, New York, and later received a commendation from George Washington.
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