Editing 1778 (section)

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* The first [[colonisation|settlement]] is made in the area of modern-day [[Louisville, Kentucky]], by 13 families under [[Colonel]] [[George Rogers Clark]].
* [[Phillips Academy]] is founded in Massachusetts by Samuel Phillips Jr.
* The term ''[[thoroughbred]]'' is first used in the United States, in an advertisement in a [[Kentucky]] [[gazette]], to describe a [[New Jersey]] stallion called Pilgarlick.
* [[Thomas Kitchin]]'s ''The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe'' is published in London.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4397/ |title = The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1778 |access-date = 2013-08-30 }}</ref>
* The city of [[Ulaanbaatar]] is settled at its present location, having functioned as a mobile monastic settlement since 1639.</onlyinclude>