* 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.

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.

This annual contributing ceased when Newton left in 1780 when he took the position of Rector at St. Mary Woolnoth, in London.

During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).

* November 28 – Mary Somerville, British mathematician ( b. 1780 )

His early memorial work included monuments for Thomas Chatterton in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol ( 1780 ), Mrs Morley in Gloucester Cathedral ( 1784 ), and the Rev.

Dearborn was married three times: to Mary Bartlett in 1771, to Dorcas ( Osgood ) Marble in 1780, and to Sarah Bowdoin, widow of James Bowdoin, in 1813.

Ann Emily married the Honorable Ross Cuthbert ; Richard Rush ( 1780 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Catherine Elizabeth Murray ; Mary married Major Thomas Manners ; James became a medical doctor and married Eugenia Frances Heister and Elizabeth Upshur Dennis ; Benjamin did not marry, moved to New Orleans, LA ; Julia ( 1792 – 1860 ) married Henry Jonathon Williams Esquire ; Samuel ( 1795 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Nancy Anne Wilmer ; William became a doctor and married Elizabeth Fox Roberts.

* Mary Paine, b. Feb. 9, 1780 ; d. Feb. 27, 1842 ; m. Rev.

Lord Grantham married Lady Mary Jemima, daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey, in 1780.

Several notable people were born in the town, including Mary Somerville ( 1780 – 1872 ), the eminent scientist and writer, after whom Somerville College, Oxford named.

Watermans ' Hall is located at 16 St Mary At Hill, in Billingsgate, it dates to 1780 and is the only surviving Georgian guild hall.

Born in what is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec today, he was the son of Lt .- Colonel Gabriel Marchand ( 1780 – 1852 ) J. P., and Mary MacNider, a woman of the Anglican faith, daughter of the pioneering John MacNider, 2nd Seigneur of Metis, Quebec.

Mary Fairfax Somerville ( 26 December 1780 – 28 November 1872 ) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged.

On 16 February 1780 at Bolton Parish Church, Crompton married Mary Pimlott ( or Pimbley ).

He married his first wife Mary Atkinson in 1780 in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.

He returned to Virginia and attended the College of William and Mary, but in December 1780 he became an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene.

The parish church of Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1780 with a notable Baroque-Classical main altar, was severely damaged.

In 1760, Mary, who had been created the 1st Baroness Stawell, bore Henry Bilson-Legge's only child, Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell ( 1757 – 1820 ), who became Baron Stawell on his mother's death in 1780.

The Casa Pia is a Portuguese institution founded by Maria I, known as A Pia (" Mary the Pious "), and organized by Police Intendant Pina Manique in 1780, following the social disarray of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

He married Mary Binney ( 1805 – 1831 ), daughter of Horace Binney ( 1780 – 1875 ) who had two daughters.

Between 1780 and 1783 Allen participated, along with his brother Ira, Vermont Governor Thomas Chittenden, and others, in negotiations with Frederick Haldimand, the governor of Quebec, that were ostensibly about prisoner exchanges, but were really about establishing Vermont as a new British province and gaining military protection for its residents.

In the year 1780 the British East India Company | British began to annex the terrirtories of the Sultanate of Mysore, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

In 1780, the Spanish returned to Trujillo, who started out as base of operations against British settlements to the east.

During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of the Bay Islands and took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area.

When Charleston was captured by the British in 1780, Middleton accepted defeat and status as a British subject.

Following the British example, the constitutions of Virginia ( 1776 ) and Massachusetts ( 1780 ) and other states thereafter adopted the impeachment mechanism ; however, they restricted the punishment to removal of the official from office.

* 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 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.

* 1780 – Sir James Denham-Steuart, British economist ( b. 1712 )

* 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.

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* 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.

* 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

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.

* October 12 – Elizabeth Fry, British humanitarian ( b. 1780 )