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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 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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January 18: Britain's Captain Cook and crew become first Europeans to land on Hawaiian Islands
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June 28: Battle of Monmouth
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  • October 12 The Continental Congress advises the 13 member states to suppress "theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and general depravity of principles and manners."[1]
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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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