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).
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,
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