1680

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).

Events of PAGENAME

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.

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 17 - Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.
* November 23 - The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.

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.

Births

* 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)

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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)

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