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Year '1680' ('MDCLXXX') was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ February - the Reverend Ralph Davenant dies leaving £100 in his will to start up a new school for the poor boys of Whitechapel, in the East End.

★ May - an eruption occurs at the volcano Krakatoa, probably on a relatively small scale.

July - December

★ July 8 - The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

★ August 21 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe (New Mexico) from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.

★ November 17 - Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.

★ November 23 - Great Comet of 1680 first sighted.

Undated

★ Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV): decide on complete annexation of Alsace.

★ First Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.

★ The Swedish city Karlskrona founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Births

★ January 23 - Joseph Ames, English author (died 1759)

★ February 14 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (died 1737)

★ February 23 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (died 1767)

★ April 9 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (died 1754)

★ June 22 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (died 1754)

★ September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)

★ October 19 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (died 1740)

★ November 22 - Edward Teach (Blackbeard), pirate (died 1718)

★ ''date unknown'' - John Machin, English mathematician (died 1752)
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Deaths

★ February - Reverend Ralph Davenant, founder of Davenant Foundation School

★ February 17

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★ Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (born 1599)

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★ Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (born 1637)

★ February 22 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (born c.1607)

★ March 14 - René Le Bossu, French critic (born 1631)

★ March 17 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (born 1613)

★ March 23 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (born 1615)

★ April 3 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (born 1630)

★ May 31 - Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (born 1650)

★ June 18 - Samuel Butler, English poet (born 1612)

★ June 10 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (born 1635)

★ July 10 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (born 1643)

★ July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (born 1647)

★ July 30 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (born 1634)

★ August 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (born 1650)

★ August 22 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (born 1613)

★ August 24 - Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (born 1618)

★ August 25 - Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (born 1629)

★ September 2 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (born 1602)

★ September 9 - Henry Marten, English regicide (born 1602)

★ September 10 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (born 1610)

★ September 11

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★ Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (born 1621)

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★ Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (born 1596)

★ October 4 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (born c.1640)

★ October 30 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (born 1616)

★ November 27 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (born 1602)

★ November 28 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (born 1598)

★ November 28 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (born 1606)

★ December 4 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (born 1616)

★ December 8 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (born 1606)
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