Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1678

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Literature

Test Acts allows the holding of public office only to Anglicans
Popish Plot: Titus Oates alleges a Jesuit plot to murder Charles II
The Popish Plot triggers the Exclusion Crisis: Political crisis, as Shaftesbury leads the "Country" to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, from succession in favour of Charles II's bastard son, James, Duke of Monmouth
Louis XIV and Leopold I sign the Treaty of Nijmegen