A Pinellas County fire engine in Largo, Florida

In the year 1678, the first fire engine company in the future United States goes into service (Jan 27), the_ Test Act_ provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons of England must swear an anti-Catholic oath, before taking office (Dec 3), about 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas, the first chrysanthemums are planted in Europe – and all these fine people were born:

1678-xxxx Kaisa Yrjöntytär Pennala** (Härkönen) mother of Susanna Olavintytär Saukko - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (1744/c. 66)

1678-0304 Antonio Vivaldi* composer/virtuoso violinist/priest – Venice, Italy (1741/63)
1678-0307 Filippo Juvarra* architect - Messina, Kingdom of Sicily (1736/57)

1678-0414 Abraham Darby the elder* malt mill maker/inventor - Dudley, Worcestershire, England (1717/38)

1678-0503 Amaro “Pargo” Rodríguez-Felipe* corsair/philanthropist - San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (1747/69)
1678-0516 Andreas Silbermann* organ builder - Kleinbobritzsch, Saxony (1734/55)

1678-0726 Joseph I* Holy Roman Emperor/sanctioned the extermination of Romani people within the Holy Roman Empire - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, HRE (1711/32)

1678-0926 Peter Lacy* soldier/commander in the Imperial Russian army/governor of Riga - Killedy, County Limerick, Ireland (1751/72)

1678-1016 Anna Waser* Swiss painter - Zürich (1714/35)

1678-1126 Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan* geophysicist/astronomer/ chronobiologist – Bèziers, France (1771/92)

1678-1214 Daniel Neal* historian - London, England (1743/64)
1678-1230 William Croft (B) organist/composer - Manor House, Warwickshire, England (1727/48)

Updated 17.4.2023-1
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