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Timeline of 1778
A chronological index of the notable events of 1778. Linked items have dedicated articles.
| Date | Item | Category | Link | |—|—|—|—| | 1778 (year-long) | Franco-American Alliance Nexus | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Treaty of Paris Negotiations (1778 Roots) | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | The Global Crisis of 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Edmund Burke’s Parliamentary Opposition | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Religious Developments and Church-State Relations in 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Women’s Agency and Influence in 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Slavery and the American Revolution in 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Indigenous Nations: Diplomacy and Division in 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | 1778: Military Turning Point | Military Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Haudenosaunee Strategic Alliance | Military Events | → | | 1778 (year-long) | The Enlightenment Transition of 1778 | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Tonkünstler-Societät (Vienna Concert Society) | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Wartime Trade & Commerce in 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Caribbean Sugar Economy and British Naval Vulnerability | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Continental Dollar Crisis of 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Industrialization & Innovation in 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | American Revolutionary War Financing in 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Sartine’s Naval Reforms & French Naval Administration | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Condition of European Agricultural Systems in 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Naval Privateering and Commerce Raiding in 1778 | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | The Boston Tea Party’s Economic Legacy (1773–1778) | Economics & Trade | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Abigail Adams (1744–1818) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Catherine II ‘The Great’ (1729–1796) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Comte de Vergennes (1717–1787) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | General William Howe (1729–1814) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | George Washington (1732–1799) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Henry Laurens (1724–1792) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | John Hancock (1737–1793) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | José Moñino y Redondo, Count of Floridablanca (1728–1808) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | King George III (1738–1820) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | King Louis XVI (1754–1793) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Maria Carolina of Austria and Naples (1752–1814) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731–1802) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Robert Morris (1734–1806) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1809) | Key Figures | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Antoine Lavoisier — Chemical Experiments and the Oxygen Theory | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Captain Cook’s Northwest Passage Expedition | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (year-long) | James Edward Smith and the Preservation of Linnaeus’s Legacy | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Leonhard Euler’s Advances in Celestial Mechanics | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Scientific Instruments and Methods in 1778 | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (year-long) | Buffon’s Les Époques de la Nature | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778 (Apr–Dec) | Carlisle Peace Commission | Political Events | → | | 1778-01-10 | Death of Carl Linnaeus | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778-01-18 | Captain Cook Reaches Hawaii | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778-01-27 | Piccinni’s Roland Premieres — Gluck–Piccinni Querelle | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-01-27 | Sophie Arnould (1740–1802), Prima Donna of the Querelle | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-01-29 | Fanny Burney’s Evelina Published | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-02-06 | Treaty of Alliance (France–United States) | Political Events | → | | 1778-02-23 | Baron Friedrich von Steuben (1730–1794) | Key Figures | → | | 1778-02-26 | Mesmer Arrives in Paris — Animal Magnetism | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778-03-05 | Articles of Confederation Ratification | Political Events | → | | 1778-03-12 | Ethan Allen and the Vermont Republic | Political Events | → | | 1778-03-16 | Voltaire’s Irène Premieres at the Comédie-Française | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-03-17 | Britain Declares War on France | Political Events | → | | 1778-04-13 | Comte d’Estaing (1729–1794) | Key Figures | → | | 1778-04-24 | John Paul Jones Captures HMS Drake | Key Figures | → | | 1778-05-11 | Death of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Key Figures | → | | 1778-05-20 | Lafayette’s Barren Hill Escape | Military Events | → | | 1778-05-30 | Voltaire Dies in Paris | Key Figures | → | | 1778-06-18 | Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony Premieres | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-06-19 | Valley Forge Encampment Ends | Military Events | → | | 1778-06-24 | David Rittenhouse Observes the Solar Eclipse | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778-06-24 | Total Solar Eclipse of June 24, 1778 | Science & Discovery | → | | 1778-06-28 | Battle of Monmouth | Military Events | → | | 1778-07-02 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dies | Key Figures | → | | 1778-07-03 | War of the Bavarian Succession Begins | Military Events | → | | 1778-07-04 | George Rogers Clark’s Illinois Campaign | Military Events | → | | 1778-07-27 | Battle of Ushant | Military Events | → | | 1778-08-03 | La Scala Opens in Milan | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-08-29 | Battle of Rhode Island | Military Events | → | | 1778-09-14 | Diplomatic Intelligence & Espionage Networks of 1778 | Political Events | → | | 1778-09-17 | Treaty of Alliance with the Delaware Nation | Political Events | → | | 1778-10-30 | Raquel Premieres in Madrid | Arts & Culture | → | | 1778-11-30 | Joseph Banks (1743–1820) | Key Figures | → | | 1778-12-15 | Battle of St. Lucia | Military Events | → | | 1778-12-29 | Capture of Savannah | Military Events | → |