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1778 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1778
MDCCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita 2531
Armenian calendar 1227
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԷ
Assyrian calendar 6528
Balinese saka calendar 1699–1700
Bengali calendar 1185
Berber calendar 2728
British Regnal year 18  Geo. 3   19  Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2322
Burmese calendar 1140
Byzantine calendar 7286–7287
Chinese calendar 丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster)
4475 or 4268
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth  Dog)
4476 or 4269
Coptic calendar 1494–1495
Discordian calendar 2944
Ethiopian calendar 1770–1771
Hebrew calendar 5538–5539
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1834–1835
 - Shaka Samvat 1699–1700
 - Kali Yuga 4878–4879
Holocene calendar 11778
Igbo calendar 778–779
Iranian calendar 1156–1157
Islamic calendar 1191–1192
Japanese calendar An'ei 7
(安永7年)
Javanese calendar 1703–1704
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4111
Minguo calendar 134 before ROC
民前134年
Nanakshahi calendar 310
Thai solar calendar 2320–2321
Tibetan calendar 阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1904 or 1523 or 751
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1905 or 1524 or 752
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June 28: Battle of Monmouth

1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar  and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1778th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 778th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1778, the Gregorian calendar was 11days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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November 26: Captain Cook lands on Maui.

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Thomas Lincoln
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José de San Martín
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William Hazlitt

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Harry Croswell
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Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
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Bernardo O'Higgins

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Clemens Brentano
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Humphry Davy
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Joseph Grimaldi

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Carl Linnaeus
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Voltaire
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1796</span> Calendar year

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