Events in History in 1678
- Feb 18 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder
- Jun 25 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD
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Historical Figures Born in 1678
- Mar 3 Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
- Mar 7 Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, born in Messina, Italy (d. 1736)
- Mar 15 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
- Jul 26 Joseph I Habsburg, German king and Roman Catholic emperor (1705-11), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1711)
- Sep 16 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher, born in Battersea, Surrey, England (d. 1751)
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Historical Figures Who Died in 1678
- Jan 4 Joan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71
- Jan 24 Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
- Jan 29 Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- Feb 10 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
- May 5 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet, spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
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