1680
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1650s 1660s 1670s – 1680s – 1690s 1700s 1710s |
| Years: | 1677 1678 1679 – 1680 – 1681 1682 1683 |
| 1680 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1680 (MDCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1680
[edit] January–June
- February – The Reverend Ralph Davenant dies, leaving £100 in his will to start up a new school for the poor boys of Whitechapel, in the East End.
- May – The volcano Krakatoa erupts, probably on a relatively small scale.
[edit] July–December
- July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- August 21 – Pueblo Revolt: Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe (New Mexico) from the Spanish.
- November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.
- November 17 – Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.
[edit] Undated
- Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
- The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
- The Swedish city of Karlskrona is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1680 MDCLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2433 |
| Armenian calendar | 1129 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -164 – -163 |
| Berber calendar | 2630 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2224 |
| Burmese calendar | 1042 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7188 – 7189 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月三十日 (4316/4376-11-30) — to —
庚申年十一月十一日(4317/4377-11-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1396 – 1397 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1672 – 1673 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5440 – 5441 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1735 – 1736 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1602 – 1603 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4781 – 4782 |
| Holocene calendar | 11680 |
| Iranian calendar | 1058 – 1059 |
| Islamic calendar | 1090 – 1091 |
| Japanese calendar | Enpō 8 (延宝8年) |
| Korean calendar | 4013 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2223 |
- January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author (d. 1759)
- February 14 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
- February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
- April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
- June 22 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
- September 22 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- October 19 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
- November 22 – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), pirate (d. 1718)
- date unknown – John Machin, English mathematician (d. 1752)
- See also Category: 1680 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February – Reverend Ralph Davenant, founder of Davenant Foundation School
- February 17
- Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
- Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
- February 22 – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1607)
- March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
- March 17 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
- March 23 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
- March 4 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
- May 31 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
- June 18 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
- June 10 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- July 10 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (b. 1643)
- July 26 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (b. 1647)
- July 30 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
- August 20 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
- August 22 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- August 24 – Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (b. 1618)
- August 25 – Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (b. 1629)
- September 2 – Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
- September 9 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
- September 11
- Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
- Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
- October 4 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (b. c. 1640)
- October 30 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1602)
- November 28 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- November 28 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
- December 4 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
- December 8 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
- See also Category: 1680 deaths.
