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).

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.

Use of torture abolished in France.^[2]

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.