1778

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1775 1776 1777 - 1778 - 1779 1780 1781\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1778 in art
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n*"The term Thoroughbred was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick .\n*January 18 - Third Pacific expedition of Capt. James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, first view O'ahu then Kaua'i in the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands." \n*February 5 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation\n*February 6 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic. \n* February 23 - American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army\n* July 10 - American Revolutionary War: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. \n* July 27 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff.\n* November 26 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover Maui. \n* France Introduced the first state-controlled brothel \n

Births

\n* February 22 - Rembrandt Peale, artist\n*April 10 - William Hazlitt - English essayist\n*November 1 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden\n*December 17 - Sir Humphry Davy - English chemist

Deaths

\n*January 10 - Carolus Linnaeus\n*May 30 - François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire, french philosopher\n*June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n