1780

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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).

[edit] Events of 1780

May 29: Waxhaw Massacre in America.

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 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.

1780: Final volume, Diderot Encyclopédie.

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).
Jose Gabriel Kunturkanki, businessman and landowner, proclaims himself Inca Tupac Amaru II.
Use of torture abolished in France.^[2]
Nikephoros Theotokis starts introducing Edinoverie, an attempt to integrate the Old Belevers into Russia's established church.
West countries pay 16,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.

See also Category: 1780 births.

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 (b. c. 1714)
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 2 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (b. 1750)
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 Category: 1780 deaths.

^ Timeline of the American Revolutionary War. Independence Hall. Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
^ Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections Seventh Edition. Thompson.