1780
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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
- February, Armed Neutrality of the North alliance formed between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia.
- March 26 - The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain
- May 12 - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
- May 29 - American Revolutionary War: Loyalist forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering 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: British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces.
- October 10-16 – 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, who has already been Holy Roman Emperor since 1765.
- Britain attacks the 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 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 grain and wine harvest in France
Births
- April 29 - Charles Nodier, French author (d. 1844)
- June 1 - Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian military strategist (d. 1831)
- August 1 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and poet (d. 1843)
- August 29 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- December 26 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
- John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1862)
Deaths
- September 8 - Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary general (b. 1736)
- November 29 - Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
- Thomas Dilworth, British cleric and writeraf:1780
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