Major Events
- Feb 18 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in 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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Who Died in 1678
- Jan 7 Johannes Flittner, German composer, dies at 59
- Jan 24 Joan Maetsuyker, Dutch colonial ruler (Governor-general of Dutch East Indies, 1653-78; Governor of Zeylon, 1646-50), dies at 71
- 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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