Events:
• The Wellington Museum opens in Apsley House, London.
Deaths:
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
• Voltaire (1694-1778)
Art:
• Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Dedalo e Icaro (1778-79)
• Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le bluff de l’aveugle (c.1775-80)
• Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough (1778)
• Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828): El ciego de la guitarra (1778)
• Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793): Veduta sul Canale di Cannaregio, Venezia (c.1775-80)