Events from the year 1778 in Austria
Incumbents Monarch – Maria Theresa Monarch – Joseph II State Chancellor - Wenzel Anton
Events
(3 July 1778 - 13 May 1779) - the War of the Bavarian Succession was a dispute between the Austrian habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia.
Births
January 26 - Johann Georg Stauffer, luthier (d. 1853) January 31 - Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, statesman (d. 1861) March 23 - Paul Traugott Meissner, chemist (d. 1864) March 24 - Anton Edler von Gapp, lawyer (d. 1862) April 10 - Johann Arzberger, technologist (d. 1835) May 8 - Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, composer (d. 1844) July 10 - Sigismund von Neukomm, composer and pianist (d. 1858) August 2 - Georg Anton Rollett, naturalist (d. 1842) November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer, virtuoso pianist (d. 1837) November 16 - Johann Joseph von Prechtl, technologist (d. 1854)
Deaths
July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother to the Mozarts (b. 1720)
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