Other works by Lardner are A Large Collection of Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Revelation, with Notes and Observations ( 4 volumes, quarto, 1764 – 1767 ); The History of the Heretics of the two first Centuries after Christ, published posthumously in 1780 ; and a considerable number of occasional sermons.

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.

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.

* 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.

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!

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.

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, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.

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.

* Virginia State House of Burgesses ( 1777, 1780, 1785 )

Accordingly, in the State records of Virginia, there will be listings for Fayette County from 1780 – 1792 and Fayette County from 1831-1863.

On March 30, 1780, they filed the following petition with the State of New Hampshire ( spelling left as printed in 1780 ):

The bill to incorporate it was introduced by Richard Caswell, who made his home there and later served as the first Governor of the State of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780.

Elizabethton is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase ( 1775 ), a major historic muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill ( 1780 ) and the Battle of Kings Mountain ( 1780 ), and a local community within the secessionist North Carolina " State of Franklin " territory ( 1784 – 1788 ).

In The State Tinkers ( 1780 ), James Gillray caricatured North ( on his knees ) and his allies as incompetent tinkers of the National Kettle.

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Henry served as a member of Maryland House of Delegates from 1777 to 1780 and a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1780 to 1790.

In The State Tinkers ( 1780 ), James Gillray caricatured Germain ( second from left ) and his political allies as incompetent tinkers of the National Kettle.

In The State Tinkers ( 1780 ), James Gillray caricatured Sandwich ( on left ) and his political allies in the North Ministry | North government as incompetent tinkers.

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1780 to 1784, and at the same time New York State Surveyor General from 1781 to 1784.

After serving in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, Varnum helped to destroy the Shays insurrection before he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1780 – 1785 ) and then the Massachusetts State Senate ( 1786 – 1795 ).

He was active in the various revolutionary committees, and was elected to the convention ( later the State Assembly ) from Dover every year from 1776 to 1780.

Richard Caswell ( August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789 ) was the first and fifth governor of the U. S. State of North Carolina, serving from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1787.

Marquis de Ségur ( 1724 – 1801 ) was a Marshal of France and Secretary of State for War from 1780 to 1787.

In 1780, the State of Maryland judged Alexander guilty of high treason, and seized most of his property.

When the Massachusetts State Constitution was established in 1780, legislative and judicial records show that the state's high court, although renamed, was a continuation of provincial high court.

Hathorn was a member from Orange County of the New York State Assembly in 1778, 1780, from 1782 to 1785, in 1795 and 1805, and served as Speaker in 1784.

Under the new Constitution he was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1780 and served two terms.

Cornell was appointed deputy adjutant general on October 1, 1776, appointed brigadier general of State troops in 1776 and served until March 16, 1780.