1780

Year '1780' ('MDCCLXXX') was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1780

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Notes

Events of 1780

January - June

★ January 16 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

★ February - League of Armed Neutrality alliance formed between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia.

★ March 26 - The ''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 British forces.


★ May 19 - New England's Dark Day

★ May 29 - American Revolutionary War: Loyalist forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers in the Waxhaw Massacre.

★ June 2 - Gordon Riots in London, Great Britain. The Duke of Richmond calls, in the House of Lords, for manhood suffrage and annual parliaments.

July - December

★ July 11 - French soldiers arrive in Newport, Rhode Island to reinforce colonists in the American Revolutionary War^[1]

★ 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: British spy John André is hanged by American forces.

★ October 7 - Patriots defeat Loyalists under British Major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain.

★ October 10-16 - The Great Hurricane flattens the islands of Barbados, Martinique and St. Eustatius: 22,000 dead.

★ November 29 - Maria Theresa of Austria dies and her Habsburg dominions pass to her ambitious son, Joseph II, who has already been Holy Roman Emperor since 1765.

★ December 16 - Emperor Kōkaku accedes to the throne of Japan.

Undated

★ Britain attacks the United Provinces before it can join the League of Armed Neutrality, because of its support for the American uprising.

★ 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 grain and wine harvest in France.

★ The 35th and last volume of Diderot's ''Encyclopédie'' is published.

★ The original Craven Cottage is built by William Craven, 6th Baron Craven (it was located on the centre circle of the pitch).

★ Use of torture abolished in France.^[2]

Births

★ February 19 - Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)

★ 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 Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)

★ ''date unknown'' - John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1862)
: ''See also .''

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, English physician (b. 1712)

★ ''date unknown'' - Thomas Dilworth, British cleric and writer
: ''See also .''

Notes

1. Timeline of the American Revolutionary War
2. American Corrections Seventh Edition, Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D., , , Thompson, 2006,