February 2 » Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
June 28 » Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
July 8 » Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.
August 8 » Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
August 28 » Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
September 11 » Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
Day of burial November 11, 1778
The temperature on November 11, 1778 was about 9.0 °C. There was 68 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen donker. Source: KNMI
May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
June 18 » American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
September 17 » The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.
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