Today in History for Year 1778

Months in Year 1778: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 18th - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
Jan 20th - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
Jan 27th - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
Feb 5th - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
Feb 6th - England declares war on France
Feb 6th - France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
Feb 14th - "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
Feb 23rd - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
Feb 28th - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
Mar 7th - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
Mar 15th - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
Mar 22nd - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
Mar 30th - Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
Apr 1st - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
May 1st - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
Jun 18th - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
Jun 19th - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
Jun 24th - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
Jun 27th - Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left
Philosophe Voltaire Jun 28th - Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
Jun 28th - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
Jul 3rd - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
Jul 3rd - Prussia declares war on Austria
Jul 8th - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
Jul 10th - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Aug 3rd - Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
Aug 9th - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
Aug 26th - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
Aug 31st - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
Sep 4th - City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels
Sep 17th - 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
Sep 19th - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
Oct 3rd - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
Nov 11th - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
Nov 26th - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
Dec 29th - English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 49 of 49

Jan 3rd - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
Jan 5th - Fortunato Santini, composer
Jan 13th - Anton Fischer, composer
Jan 24th - Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X
Jan 26th - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
Jan 31st - Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)
Feb 4th - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
Feb 6th - Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
Feb 12th - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
Feb 13th - Fernando Sor, composer
Feb 14th - Fernando Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)
Feb 22nd - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
Feb 25th - Jose de San Martin, Yapeyú, Corrientes, Argentine general, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru from Spanish rule
Mar 3rd - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)
Mar 8th - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
Mar 19th - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
Mar 31st - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
Apr 6th - Joseph Funk, composer
Apr 10th - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
May 8th - Johann Gansbacher, composer
May 18th - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
May 28th - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
Jun 7th - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
Jul 7th - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
Jul 10th - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
Jul 25th - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
Jul 28th - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869
Jul 29th - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
Aug 11th - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
Aug 12th - Francis Horner, politician
Aug 18th - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
Aug 20th - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)
Sep 2nd - Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
Sep 2nd - Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
Sep 3rd - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
Sep 4th - Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands (1806-10)
Sep 8th - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
Sep 19th - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
Nov 1st - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
Nov 14th - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
Nov 25th - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
Nov 27th - John Murray, publisher
Dec 6th - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
Dec 15th - Godert AGP baron van der Capellen, Dutch gov-gen (Dutch-Indies)
Dec 17th - Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
Dec 19th - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
Dec 21st - Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
Dec 26th - Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
Dec 28th - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 34 of 34

Jan 4th - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
Jan 10th - Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70
Feb 15th - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
Feb 18th - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
Feb 20th - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
Mar 5th - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
Mar 7th - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
Mar 13th - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
Apr 7th - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
Apr 8th - Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
Apr 22nd - James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
May 11th - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
May 16th - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
May 30th - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
Jun 7th - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
Jun 12th - Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
Jun 16th - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
Jun 24th - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
Jun 26th - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
Philosophe Voltaire (May 30th) Jul 2nd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
Jul 2nd - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
Jul 3rd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
Jul 3rd - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
Jul 28th - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
Aug 4th - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
Aug 5th - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
Aug 5th - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
Aug 12th - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
Aug 14th - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
Aug 28th - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
Sep 23rd - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83
Nov 9th - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
Nov 20th - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
Nov 26th - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68