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Events from the year 1680 in the Kingdom of England.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
[edit] Births
- 23 January - Joseph Ames, author (died 1759)
- 14 February - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, privy councillor (died 1737)
- 20 June - Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1743)
- 12 October - Arthur Collier, philosopher (died 1732)
- Blackbeard, pirate (died 1718)
- John Colson, mathematician (died 1760)
- Barnabas Gunn, organist and composer (died 1753)
- John Machin, mathematician (died 1752)
[edit] Deaths
- 14 January (New Style) - George Carteret, statesman (born c.1610)
- 17 February - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, statesman and writer (born 1599)
- 16 May - Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Matfen, Member of Parliament (born 1620)
- 22 May - Richard Sawkins, pirate (year of birth unknown)
- 18 June - Samuel Butler, poet (born 1612)
- 26 July - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (born 1647)
- 20 August - William Bedloe, informer (born 1650)
- 24 August - Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (born 1618)
- 9 September - Henry Marten, regicide (born 1602)
- 11 September - Roger Crab, Puritan political writer (born 1621)
- 30 November - Peter Lely, painter (born 1618)
- 8 December - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, politician (born 1606)
- 29 December - William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, martyr (born 1614)
- Cornelius Essex, pirate (year of birth unknown)
- Sir James Harrington, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1607)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 279. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
[edit] See also
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