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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

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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.

is taken by British forces.

Waxhaw Massacre

May 19 - New England's Dark Day

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

- The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina .

September 25 – Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York .

spy John André is hanged by American forces.

October 7 - Patriot s defeat Loyalist s 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 .

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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 .''

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