* 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.

* January 15 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist ( b. 1780 )

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

Written in 1780, while secretary to the French Legation to the US Army: " D ' Complot du Benedict Arnold & Sir Henri Clinton contre Eunas ` States du America General George Washington " One of the first accounts of Arnold's treason, was not published until 1816.

Henri Braconnot ( May 29, 1780, Commercy, Meuse-January 15, 1855, Nancy ) was a French chemist and pharmacist.

There were four parchments altogether, two of which were reproduced in Gérard de Sède ’ s forthcoming book ( their contents were described in this 1965 document ) and the other two containing genealogies made by the Abbé Bigou ( running from 1548 to 1789 ) and Henri Lobineau ( running from 1780 to 1915 ).

* Pierre Montan Berton ( 1727 – 1780 ), French composer and father of composer Henri Montan Berton

In July 1780, 5, 000 veteran French troops led by General Comte Donatien de Rochambeau arrived at Newport, Rhode Island to aid in the war effort.

* 1780 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician ( d. 1838 )

* 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon ( d. 1780 )

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

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

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

In 1780 Jefferson as governor received numerous questions about Virginia from French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois, who was gathering pertinent data on the United States.

* April 18 – Léon Jean Marie Dufour, French medical doctor and naturalist ( b. 1780 )

* January 14 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( b. 1780 )

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

* December 7 – Joseph Bara, French Revolution child-hero ( b. 1780 )

* September 30 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( d. 1780 )

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

* July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect ( d. 1780 )

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867 ) was a French Neoclassical painter.

The French expeditionary force arrived in America in July 1780.

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.

On July 10, 1780, a French expedition sent by King Louis XVI commanded by Rochambeau arrived with an army of 450 officers and 5, 300 men in Narragansett Bay off Newport.

* French frigate Hermione ( 1779 ), a French frigate that carried La Fayette to join the American fight for independence in 1780