* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( d. 1780 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

* 1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

* 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( d. 1867 )

Archery, romance and elite culture in England and Wales, c. 1780 – 1840, 89, 193 – 208.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

* 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician ( d. 1780 )

* 1780 – William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian ( d. 1842 )

# Maria Paola or Marie Pauline Bonaparte ( 1780 – 1825 ), married in 1797 to French general Charles Leclerc and later married Prince Camillo Borghese.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

With Johanna ( 1780 – 1809 ), his children were Joseph ( 1806 – 1873 ), Wilhelmina ( 1808 – 1846 ) and Louis ( 1809 – 1810 ).

The morning chocolate by Pietro Longhi ; Venice, 1775 – 1780.

* 1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician ( d. 1872 )

In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

* 1780 – Richard McCarty, American politician ( d. 1844 )

While his southern commander Greene in 1780 – 81 did use Fabian tactics, Washington did so only in fall 1776 to spring 1777, after losing New York City and seeing much of his army melt away.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

* 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey ( including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township ).

* 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

* John Brown of Pittsfield ( 1744 – 1780 ), American Revolutionary War officer

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

* 1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday " as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence ".

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

* 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician ( b. 1780 )

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.

* 1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.

* 1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

* 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

" The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780 – 1910.

* November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina ( 1776 – 1780, 1785 – 1787 ) ( b. 1729 )

* March 3 – David Porter, American naval officer ( b. 1780 )

* May 18 – Richard McCarty, American politician ( b. 1780 )

* May 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War ( d. 1780 )

As governor of Virginia ( 1780 – 1781 ) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

After the American Revolutionary War established the United States, northern states, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, passed legislation during the next two decades to abolish slavery, sometimes by gradual emancipation.

In 1780, the Virginia General Assembly bestowed this name in honor of the French king, whose soldiers were aiding the American side in the Revolutionary War.

Stephen was named for a supposed founder of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales as early as 1665, as well as his great-great grandfather Stephen Crane ( 1709 – 1780 ), a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

* Battle of Springfield ( 1780 ), near Springfield, New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War

The county was named for Revolutionary War hero, General William Campbell, who is known for the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain.

Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams ' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780 ; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781 ; and Bush River, May 1781.

During the American Revolutionary War, the British occupied Camden from June 1780 to May 1781.

It was named for John Stokes, an American Revolutionary War captain severely wounded when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton's cavalry practically destroyed Col. Abraham Buford's Virginia regiment in the Waxhaws region in 1780.

It was named for William Woodford, an American Revolutionary War general from Virginia who died while a prisoner of war in 1780.

In 1780 during the Revolutionary War, General George Rogers Clark established Fort Jefferson on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River one mile south of present-day Wickliffe.

In 1780, seven black residents of Dartmouth petitioned the town's legislature for the right to vote, claiming a lack of representation despite the fact that they paid taxes and fought in the Revolutionary War.

* Robert Erskine, ( 1735 – 1780 ), a Scottish inventor and later an American officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.