Editing 1678 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin]] is enthroned as the Patriarch of the [[Syriac Catholic Church]] in [[Aleppo]], after receiving recognition by Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed IV]] and by [[Pope Innocent XI]].
* [[April 12]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Casco (1678)|Treaty of Casco Bay]] is signed between officials of the [[Province of New York]] and the [[Penobscot]] tribe and the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], bringing an end to further fighting that has happened in the two years since the end of [[King Philip's War]] in the modern-day U.S. state of [[Maine]]. Under the terms of the treaty, English settlers pay rent to the Penobscots and are given back farm land that had been confiscated in the war, while the English settlers agree to respect the Penobscot land rights.<ref>"Casco, Treaty of", by Jaime Ramon Olivares, in ''The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History'', ed. by Spencer Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p. 134</ref> 
* [[May 11]] &ndash; French admiral [[Jean II d'Estrées|Jean d'Estrees]] runs his whole fleet aground in either the [[Las Aves Archipelago]] or [[Isla de Aves]], intending to reach [[Curaçao]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schotte |first1=Margaret E. |title=Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800 |date=30 July 2019 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-1-4214-2954-0 |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umigDwAAQBAJ&dq=jean+d%27estrees+%22may+11+1678%22&pg=PA85 |access-date=12 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; French [[buccaneer]] [[Michel de Grammont]] arrives at Spanish-held [[Venezuela]] with six pirate ships, 13 smaller craft, and 2,000 men in a daring raid on the South American territory, then leads half of his force inward toward [[Maracaibo]], which he takes on June 14. During the rest of the month, he and his soldiers march inland as far as [[Trujillo, Trujillo|Trujillo]]. Grammont and his pirates finally depart on December 3.<ref>David Marley, ''Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere'' (ABC-CLIO, 2008) p. 289</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia]] becomes the first woman to be awarded a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the [[University of Padua]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grendler |first1=Paul F. |title=The Universities of the Italian Renaissance |date=3 November 2004 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |isbn=978-1-4214-0423-3 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcmTz4j-XIIC&dq=Elena+Cornaro+Piscopia+25+june+1678+doctor+of+philosophy&pg=PT46 |chapter=Padua after 1509|access-date=12 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>