* 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.

He reached England in June 1780, thanks to his Grand Tour he was £ 120 in debt.

Astruc's methods were adopted by German scholars such as Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ( 1752 – 1827 ) and Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette ( 1780 – 1849 ) in a movement which became known as the higher criticism ( to distinguish it from the far longer-established close examination and comparison of individual manuscripts, called the lower criticism ); this school reached its apogee with the influential synthesis of Julius Wellhausen ( 1844 – 1918 ) in the 1870s, at which point it seemed to many that the Bible had at last been fully explained as a human document.

In 1780, when Joseph II came to the throne, Swieten's career reached its peak of success.

Beginning in 1780 it had reached the Pueblos of the territory comprising present day New Mexico.

This was done in theory by an agreement reached by commissioners from both states in Baltimore in 1779, and ratified by the legislatures of both states in 1780, " to extend the line commonly called Mason and Dixon's line five degrees of longitude from Delaware River ... and from the western termination thereof to run and mark a meridian line to the Ohio River ," which was the northern boundary of Virginia's claim.

and General the Count Pallavicini, founder of the Austrian branch of that celebrated Italian house, a courtier Littlepage could have met at Madrid in December, 1780.

Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.

The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.

Pierre-Simon Laplace and Antoine Lavoisier, in their 1780 treatise on heat, arrived at values ranging from 1, 500 to 3, 000 below the freezing-point of water, and thought that in any case it must be at least 600 below.

The first separate edition of Alcaeus was by Christian David Jani and it was published at Halle in 1780.

His arrival in Rome, on 28 December 1780, marks a new era in his life.

Upon his return at imperial behest to Vienna in 1780, he wrote one German singspiel Der Rauchfangkehrer or ( The Chimney Sweep ) which premiered in 1781.

The current edifice was erected in 1780 over a pre-existing church which was allegedly destroyed by Cangrande della Scala.

Corsica was annexed to France in 1780.

* 1780 ; Baron Willoughby de Eresby after a year ; again in 1871 after a year.

The grammarian James Harris, a friend of Handel, directed concerts at the Assembly Rooms for almost 50 years up to his death in 1780, with many of the most famous musicians and singers of the day performing there.

* September 11, 1780: Reports of Tory activity in the region caused Captain Daniel Klader and a platoon of 40 to 50 men from Northampton County, Pennsylvania to investigate.

Her remaining four children ( Ekaterina, Elizaveta, Peter and Alexei ) were released from prison in to the custody of their aunt, the Danish queen dowager Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in 30 June 1780 and settled in Jutland, were they lived in comfort under house arrest in Horsens for the rest of their lives under the guardianship of Juliana and at the expense of Catherine the Great: having lived as prisoners, they were not used to social life, and kept a small " court " of 40 / 50 people, all Danish except for the priest

On 2 June 1780 he headed a crowd of around 50, 000 people that marched in procession from St George's Fields to the Houses of Parliament in order to present a huge petition against ( partial ) Catholic Emancipation.

* South Foreland Low lighthouse ( 1730 – 1780, 50 years service ).

The elder William Gregson had had an interest in 50 slaving voyages between 1747 and 1780, and had been mayor of the city in 1762.

He was professor of Vilnius University for over 50 years, serving as its rector from 1780 to 1799.

His grey mare, Tiffany, won the 50 l. weight-for-age race at Salisbury Races in 1780.