* 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.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.

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.

Five volumes of supplementary material and a two volume index, supervised by other editors, were issued from 1776 to 1780 by Charles Joseph Panckoucke.

The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.

* 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine ( b. 1712 )

* 1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher ( d. 1780 )

* January 27 – Charles Nodier, French writer ( b. 1780 )

* May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher ( d. 1780 )

* August 1 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( d. 1780 )

* December 12 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader ( d. 1780 )

* Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine ( 1712 – 1780 ), son of Leopold Joseph, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d ' Orléans

* Anna Marie zu Löwenfeld ( 1735 – 1783 ) ∞ Franz Ludwig Count of Holnstein ( 1723 – 1780 ), son of Clemens August's brother Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

In 1780, Louise left Charles.

*** Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( 1713 – 1780 ), his son

On 15 October 1780, he married Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, eldest daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and HRH Princess Augusta of Great Britain, the sister of King George III.

The home of Charles Washington, Happy Retreat, was erected in 1780.

In 1780, Sheridan entered Parliament as the ally of Charles James Fox on the side of the American Colonials in the political debate of that year.

Charles ' mother was Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Madame de Rémusat, born in 1780.

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine ( December 12, 1712 in Lunéville – July 4, 1780 in Tervuren ) was a Lorraine-born Austrian soldier.

Coat of arms of Charles Alexander of Lorraine as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Although Maria Anna died later that year, Charles himself continued as governor until his own death in 1780.

In 1780, he became a regular contributor to the Novelist's Magazine, for which he produced 148 designs, including his eleven illustrations to Peregrine Pickle and his graceful subjects from Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison.

* Lord Charles Bentinck ( 3 October 1780 – 28 April 1826 ).

Charles Batteux ( May 6, 1713 – July 14, 1780 ) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.