Information about 1678
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of 1678
January - June
- January 27 - The first fire engine company in what would become the United States went into service.
- February 18 - John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress
- May 11 - French admiral d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curaçao
July - December
- August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War.
- September 6 - Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the "Popish Plot", a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England
- October 17 - British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London. Titus Oates claims it as a proof of his allegations.
Undated
- About 1200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.
- The first chrysanthemums in Europe.
- In Ireland, the Diocese of Kildare is united with Leighlin to form the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin
- French buccaneer Michel de Grammont leads six pirate ships and 700 men on in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, reaching inland as far as Trujillo, Venezuela.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1678 MDCLXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2431 |
| Armenian calendar | 1127 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԷ |
| Bah' calendar | -166 – -165 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2222 |
| Chinese calendar | 4314/4374-8-5 (丁巳年八月初五日) — to — 4315/4375-6-14(戊午年六月十四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1394 – 1395 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1670 – 1671 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5438 – 5439 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1733 – 1734 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1600 – 1601 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4779 – 4780 |
| Holocene calendar | 11678 |
| Iranian calendar | 1056 – 1057 |
| Islamic calendar | 1089 – 1090 |
| Japanese calendar | Enpō 0 (延宝0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2338 (皇紀2338年) |
| Julian calendar | 1723 |
| Korean calendar | 4011 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2221 |
- March 4 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (died 1741)
- March 7 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (died 1736)
- May 16 - Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (died 1734)
- July 26 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1711)
- September 16 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (died 1751)
- September 29 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (died 1766)
- October 10 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (died 1743)
- November 26 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (died 1771)
- December 8 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (died 1757)
- December 13 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (died 1735)
- December 14 - Daniel Neal, English historian (died 1743)
- December 30 - William Croft, English composer (died 1727)
- date unknown - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (died 1707)
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Deaths
- January 29 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (born 1593)
- May 4 or May 14 - Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar (born 1607)
- August 5 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (born 1619)
- August 16 - Andrew Marvell, English writer (born 1621)
- August 28 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (born 1602)
- October 12 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (born 1621)
- October 18 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (born 1593)
- October 19 - Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (born c. 1627)
- November 1 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (born 1601)
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- Dahomey - Houegbadja, King of Dahomey (1645-1685)
- Ethiopia - Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1667-1682)
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