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1778 in Great Britain, the Glossary

Events from the year 1778 in Great Britain.^[1]

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Andrew Ure

Andrew Ure FRS (18 May 1778 – 2 January 1857) was a Scottish physician, chemist, scriptural geologist, and early business theorist who founded the Garnet Hill Observatory.

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Battle of Monmouth

The Battle of Monmouth, also known as the Battle of Monmouth Court House, was fought near Monmouth Court House in modern-day Freehold Borough, New Jersey, on June 28, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).

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Battle of Ushant (1778)

The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets west of Ushant, an island at the mouth of the English Channel off the westernmost point of France.

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Battle of Wyoming

The Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Indigenous warriors.

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Beau Brummell

George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion.

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Brentwood, Essex

Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London commuter belt 20 miles (30 km) north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway.

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Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry

Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician.

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Coxheath Common

Coxheath Common at Coxheath in Kent was used as a cricket venue for several known top-class matches between 1728 and 1789 as well as for a number of minor matches.

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Da Costa v Jones

Da Costa v Jones (1778) 2 Cowp 729 is a landmark English contract law case.

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Debenhams

Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, and is still operating as a franchise in seven Middle East countries.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a city in South Yorkshire, England.

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Draper

Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing.

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Edward Pakenham

Major General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, (19 March 1778 – 8 January 1815), was an Anglo-Irish Army officer and politician.

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English contract law

English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Evelina

Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778.

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First Anglo-Maratha War

The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first of three Anglo-Maratha Wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Confederacy in India.

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Flush toilet

A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine and feces) by using the force of water to channel it through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frances Burney

Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright.

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Franco-American alliance

The Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

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Frederick North, Lord North

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (13 April 17325 August 1792), better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. 1778 in Great Britain and George III are 1770s in Great Britain.

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Good faith (law)

In contract law, the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is a general presumption that the parties to a contract will deal with each other honestly, fairly, and in good faith, so as to not destroy the right of the other party or parties to receive the benefits of the contract.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

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Henry Phillpotts

Henry Phillpotts (6 May 177818 September 1869), often called "Henry of Exeter", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869.

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Hollandoise

Hollandoise, or alternatively Hollandaise, (1775–1782) was a grey British Thoroughbred mare that won the 1778 St. Leger Stakes, the first horse to win the event under its formal title.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.

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Invasion of Dominica (1778)

The Invasion of Dominica (7 September 1778) was a successful French invasion of the island of Dominica in the British West Indies, during the American Revolutionary War.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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James Dodsley

James Dodsley (1724–1797) was an English bookseller.

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James Grant (British Army officer, born 1778)

Major-General James Grant (17785 April 1852) was born in Middlesex about 1778, the son of James Grant of Dalvey, of the line of the Baronets Grant of Dalvey, Elgin, themselves an offshoot of Grant of Grant.

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James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves (– 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England.

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John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland

John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland (4 January 177820 January 1857), styled Lord Roos from 1778 until 1779 and Marquess of Granby from 1779 until 1787, was a British landowner as well as an owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-born American naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

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Joseph Bramah

Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith.

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Joseph Grimaldi

Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837)Moody, Jane.

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Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster (25 November 1778 – 23 October 1838) was an English Quaker and public education innovator.

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Kauai

Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is one of the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (2008) is a book by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English contract law.

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Liquidation

Liquidations is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end.

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List of British monarchs

There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister.

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Louis XVI

Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Galton, 25 November 1778 – 29 August 1856) was a British writer in the anti-slavery movement.

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Maui

Maui (Hawaiian) is the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2).

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Militia (Great Britain)

The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Monmouth County, New Jersey

Monmouth County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)

The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, in Scots as the Sheuch) is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.

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North Channel Naval Duel

The North Channel naval duel was a single-ship action between the United States Continental Navy sloop of war ''Ranger'' (Captain John Paul Jones) and the British Royal Navy sloop of war ''Drake'' (Captain George Burdon) on the evening of 24 April 1778.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Papists Act 1778

The Papists Act 1778 or the Catholic Relief Act 1778 is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (18 Geo. 3. c. 60) and was the first Act for Roman Catholic relief.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (171412 August 1778), styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1715 to 1723 and Marquess of Lindsey from 1735 to 1742, was an English peer.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, (17 May 1718 – 16 May 1778), known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician.

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Roman Catholic relief bills

The Roman Catholic Relief Bills were a series of measures introduced over time in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the Parliaments of Great Britain and the United Kingdom to remove the restrictions and prohibitions imposed on British and Irish Catholics during the English Reformation.

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1770s in Great Britain

1778 by country

1778 in Europe

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