What happened in 1678?
32 recorded events in 1678, including 16 in people, 5 in wars & conflicts and 5 in architecture & engineering.
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Wars & Conflicts 5
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Battle of Saint-Denis
1678 battle
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Battle of Warksow
1678 battle during the Swedish-Brandenburg War where Swedish forces defeated an allied army composed mainly of Danes
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Siege of Stralsund, 1678
Siege
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Siege of Ypres
1678 during the Franco-Dutch War
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Siege of Bohus Fortress
1678 siege during the Scanian War
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People 16
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Wu Sangui died
Chinese general and rebel (1612-1678)
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Jerónimo Lobo died
Portuguese missionary
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Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo died
Italian missionary (1621-1678)
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Willem Piso died
Dutch physician and naturalist (1611–1678)
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Giacomo Torelli died
Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (1608-1678)
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Claude Hardy died
French mathematician
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Claude-François Milliet Dechales died
French mathematician
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Matteo Campani-Alimenis died
Italian presbyter and inventor
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René de Bréhant de Galinée died
French missionary
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John Jenkins died
English composer
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María de Córdoba died
Spanish actor
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Jacques Hardel died
French musician
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Giovanni Battista Maccioni died
Italian composer and librettist (-ca. 1678)
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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke born
Born in Battersea. English politician and Viscount (1678-1751).
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Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse born
Born in Versailles. French count; legitimized son of Louis XIV (1678–1737).
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Peter von Lacy born
Born in Killeedy. Irish general in Russia.
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Science & Technology 1
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Accademia Albertina
Art school in Turin, Italy
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Exploration & Discovery 1
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Fleetwreck at Bornholm 1678
15 Swedish transport ships wrecked at Bornholm
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Religion & Belief Systems 4
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Chalabilar mosque
Mosque in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan
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St. Coloman
Filial church in Schwangau, Germany
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St. Andreas
Filial church in Niederlern, Germany
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Madonna dei Fanghi
Shrine in Pieve di Teco, Italy
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Architecture & Engineering 5
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Swedish House of Nobility
Palace built in 1641–1674, which is owned and managed by Sweden's knights and nobility.
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Oratory of San Nicola da Tolentino
Church building in Vicenza, Italy
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Holm Church
Church building in Enköping Municipality, Sweden
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National Shrine of Virgen La Divina Pastora
Gapan
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Church of St Mary Magdalene
Church in Willen, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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