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
January–June
July–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
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 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
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