1780 Calendar
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1780 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1780
– An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
March 17, 1780
– American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
April 16, 1780
– The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
May 12, 1780
– American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
May 19, 1780
– New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
August 22, 1780
– James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
September 23, 1780
– American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
September 24, 1780
– Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
October 2, 1780
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
October 7, 1780
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
Who Were Born On 1780?
February 19, 1780
– Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
March 18, 1780
– Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
April 7, 1780
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
April 13, 1780
– Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
April 29, 1780
– Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
July 5, 1780
– François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
August 29, 1780
– Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
September 25, 1780
– Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
October 10, 1780
– John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
December 26, 1780
– Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)