1780
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
Notes
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