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'''Years:''' 1777 1778 1779 -
1780 -
1781 1782 1783
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'''Decades:''' 1750s 1760s 1770s - '''
1780s''' -
1790s 1800s 1810s
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'''Centuries:''' 17th century - '''
18th century''' -
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'''1780''' was a
leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
*
January 16 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) Battle of Cape St. Vincent
*February -
Armed Neutrality of the North alliance formed between
Denmark,
Sweden, and
Russia.
*
March 26 - The ''
British Gazette British Gazette and Sunday Monitor'', the first Sunday newspaper in Britain
*
April 16 - The
University of Münster in
Münster,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany is founded
*
May 12 -
American Revolutionary War:
Charleston, South Carolina is taken by
Great Britain British forces.
*
May 29 - American Revolutionary War:
Loyalist (American Revolution) Loyalist forces under Col.
Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering
Patriot (American Revolution) American soldiers in the
Waxhaw Massacre.
*
August 16 - American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near
Camden, South Carolina.
*
September 25 –
Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York
*
October 2 - American Revolutionary War:
Great Britain British spy
John Andre is hanged by
United States American forces.
*
October 10-
October 16 16 –
Great Hurricane of 1780 Great hurricane flattens the islands of
Barbados,
Martinique and
St. Eustatius
*
November 29 -
Maria Theresa of Austria dies and her
Habsburg dominions pass to her ambitious son,
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, who has already been
Holy Roman Emperor since
1765.
*
Kingdom of Great Britain Britain attacks the
Dutch Republic United Provinces before it can join the Neutral Alliance, because of its support for the American uprising.
* First
Epsom Derby horse race run at Epsom Downs,
Surrey, England.
*
Emperor Kokaku of Japan Emperor Kokaku ascends to the throne of
Japan
* In Ireland,
Lady Berry, who is sentenced to death for the murder of her son, is released when she agrees to become an
executioner (retires
1810)
* Good
Cereal grain and
wine harvest in France
* 35th and last volume of
Diderot's ''
Encyclopédie'' published
Births
*
April 29 -
Charles Nodier, French author (d.
1844)
*
May 21 -
Elizabeth Fry, British humanitarian (d.
1845)
*
June 1 -
Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian military strategist (d.
1831)
*
August 29 -
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d.
1867)
*
December 26 -
Mary Somerville Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d.
1872)
*
John Bird Sumner,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1862)
Deaths
*
February 14 -
William Blackstone, English jurist (b.
1723)
*
February 17 -
Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b.
1706)
*
February 18 -
Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b.
1714)
*
March 26 -
Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b.
1713)
*
May 18 -
Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
*
June 3 -
Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b.
1711)
*
July 4 -
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b.
1712)
*
July 14 -
Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b.
1713)
*
August 3 -
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b.
1715)
*
August 29 -
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b.
1713)
*
September 4 -
John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b.
1721)
*
September 8 -
Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary general (b.
1736)
*
October 17 -
William Cookworthy, English chemist (b.
1705)
*
November 26 - Sir
James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b.
1712)
*
November 29 - Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria (b.
1717)
*
December 26 -
John Fothergill (physician) John Fothergill, English physician (b.
1712)
*
Thomas Dilworth, British cleric and writer
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