1780

1780 was a leap year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1777 1778 1779 – 1780 – 1781 1782 1783

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
• 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 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
• 35th and last volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie published

Births

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Deaths

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