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Year 1780 (MDCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. Events JanuaryJune January 16 American Revolutionary War Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. February The League of Armed Neutrality is formed between Denmark Sweden and Russia. February 29 The Omicron Delta Omega co-ed fraternity is founded by Benjamin Franklin. March 8 Formation of the League of Armed Neutrality. March 26 The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor the first Sunday newspaper in Britain begins publication. April 16 The University of Mnster in Mnster North Rhine-Westphalia Germany is founded. May 12 American Revolutionary War: Charleston South Carolina is taken by British forces. May 29: Waxhaw Massacre in America. May 13 Cumberland Compact signed by American settlers in the Cumberland Valley of Tennessee. May 19 New England's Dark Day: An unaccountable darkness spreads over New England regarded by some observers as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. 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. JulyDecember 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: British troops inflict heavy losses on a Patriot army at Camden South Carolina. August 9 American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Crdova y Crdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.23 August 24 Louis XVI of France abolishes the use of torture in extracting confessions. September 21 Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans of West Point to Major John Andr. Three days later Andr is captured with papers revealing that Arnold was planning to surrender West Point to the British. September 25 Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York. October 2 American Revolutionary War: In Tappan New York British spy John Andr is hanged by American forces. October 7 American Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain: Patriot militia forces annihilate a Loyalists under British Major Patrick Ferguson at Kings Mountain in South Carolina. October 10October 16 The Great Hurricane flattens the islands of Barbados Martinique and St. Eustatius: 22000 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 Kkaku accedes to the throne of Japan. December 20 start of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. Date unknown Final volume Diderot Encyclopdie. 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) The original Craven Cottage is built by William Craven 6th Baron Craven (located on the centre circle of the pitch). Jose Gabriel Kunturkanki businessman and landowner proclaims himself Inca Tupac Amaru II. Nikephoros Theotokis starts introducing Edinoverie an attempt to integrate the Old Believers into Russia's established church. Western countries pay 16000000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods. c. 9 million population in Britain. Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded in Norway.

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) July 5 Franois Carlo Antommarchi French Physician (d. 1838) August 29 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French painter (d. 1867) December 26 Mary Fairfax Somerville British mathematician (d. 1872) date unknown James Justinian Morier British diplomat and novelist (d. 1849) John Bird Sumner Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1862) 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 17 Elizabeth Butchill English woman executed for the murder of her newborn child (b. ca. 1758) March 26 Charles I Duke of Brunswick-Lneburg (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 tienne 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 Andr 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 References "Timeline of the American Revolutionary War". Independence Hall. http://www.ushistory.org/march/timeline.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-01.  Hattendorf John: Naval policy and strategy in the Mediterranean: past present and future. Taylor & Francis 2000 page 37. ISBN 0-7146-8054-0 Harbron John: Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy. Conway Maritime Press 1988 page 84. ISBN 0-85177-477-6