1778 in Austria

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Decades:	1780s 1790s
See also:	Other events of 1778 List of years in Austria

Elisabeth Hervey, Countess of Bristol

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)

References

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