In 1780, Michael Rugh acquired title to, which he operated as a farm.

Georges Hall was named after the house and farm owned by Captain George Johnson ( 1780 – 1823 ) called ' Georges Hall '.

In 1780 he had bought a farm confiscated from a Loyalist, and he settled there.

In 1780, at the initiative of Jacques Necker indirect taxes were distributed between three tax farm companies: the Ferme générale ( customs duties ), the Ligue générale ( taxes on alcohol ) and the Administration générale des domaines et des droits domaniaux ( land taxes and fees on land registration ).

Cornell served as a member of the Continental Congress from 1780 until 1782 and retired to his farm at Scituate, Rhode Island.

With the fall of Charleston in 1780 and the subsequent defeat of Horatio Gates at Camden, Lord Charles Cornwallis's triumphant Redcoats marched into North Carolina, the main body encamping a few miles from Polk's farm.

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

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

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

* 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.

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.

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.

Clausewitz was born on June 1, 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, the fourth and youngest son of a middle-class family.

The original ' Cottage ' was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven and was located on the centre circle of the pitch.

However only a small minority actually had a voice ; Parliament was elected by only a few percent of the population, ( less than 3 % as late as 1780 ), and the power to call parliament was at the pleasure of the monarch ( usually when he or she needed funds ).

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.

Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

The current standard composition for the black powders that are manufactured by pyrotechnicians was adopted as long ago as 1780.

* Italian Lazzaro Spallanzani ( 1729 – 99 ) was among early physicians to disregard Galen's theories, and in 1780 he gave experimental proof on the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs.

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.

It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( 1780 – 1839 ) from an array of autonomous Punjabi Misls.

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

This harpsichord is the work of two celebrated makers: originally constructed by Andreas Ruckers in Antwerp ( 1646 ), it was later remodeled and expanded by Pascal Taskin in Paris ( 1780 ).

As the youngest delegate to the Continental Congress ( 1780 – 83 ), Madison was considered a legislative workhorse and a master of parliamentary coalition building.

Before 1780 there was no good method for making copies of letters or drawings.

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.

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

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.

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

One of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet John Mayne, who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween ; " What fearfu ' pranks ensue!

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.

He had an excellent vantage from his house on Richmond Hill, and painted the view in about 1780.

He began those duties when he took his seat in Philadelphia on June 14, 1780, serving until 1782.

In February 1780 the crews of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in

A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.

The initial statement of the Methodist position on slavery was delivered in the Conference minutes from 1780 ’ s annual conference.

Vom Kriege () is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz ( 1780 – 1831 ), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832.

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.

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.

During this campaign in September 1780, Tipu Sultan was dispatched by Hyder Ali with 10, 000 men and 18 guns to intercept Colonel Baillie who was on his way to join Sir Hector Munro.

* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.

* 1779 – 1780, Scotland's coldest winter on record, and ice surrounded Iceland in every direction ( like in the 1690s ).

Year 1780 ( MDCCLXXX ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.