1680

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years:	1677 1678 1679 – 1680 – 1681 1682 1683

1680 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1680 (MDCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1680 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1680

January–June

• February – The Reverend Ralph Davenant dies, leaving £100 in his will to start up a new school for the poor boys of Whitechapel, in the East End.
• May – The volcano Krakatoa erupts, probably on a relatively small scale.

July–December

• July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• August 21 – Pueblo Revolt: Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe (New Mexico) from the Spanish.
• November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.
• November 17 – Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.

Undated

• Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
• The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
• The Swedish city of Karlskrona is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Births

1680 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1680 MDCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2433
Armenian calendar	1129 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-164 – -163
Bengali calendar	1087
Berber calendar	2630
Buddhist calendar	2224
Burmese calendar	1042
Byzantine calendar	7188 – 7189
Chinese calendar	己未年十一月三十日 (4316/4376-11-30) — to — 庚申年十一月十一日 (4317/4377-11-11)
Coptic calendar	1396 – 1397
Ethiopian calendar	1672 – 1673
Hebrew calendar	5440 – 5441
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1736 – 1737
- Shaka Samvat	1602 – 1603
- Kali Yuga	4781 – 4782
Holocene calendar	11680
Iranian calendar	1058 – 1059
Islamic calendar	1090 – 1091
Japanese calendar	Enpō 8 (延宝8年)
Korean calendar	4013
Thai solar calendar	2223

• January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author (d. 1759)
• February 14 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
• February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
• April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
• June 22 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
• September 22 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
• October 19 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
• November 22 – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), pirate (d. 1718)
• date unknown – John Machin, English mathematician (d. 1752)

See also Category: 1680 births.

Deaths

• February – Reverend Ralph Davenant, founder of Davenant Foundation School
• February 17
  • Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
  • Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
• February 22 – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1607)
• March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
• March 17 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
• March 23 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
• March 4 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• May 31 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
• June 18 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
• June 10 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
• July 10 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (b. 1643)
• July 26 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (b. 1647)
• July 30 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
• August 20 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
• August 22 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• August 24 – Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (b. 1618)
• August 25 – Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (b. 1629)
• September 2 – Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
• September 9 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
• September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
• September 11
  • Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
  • Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
• October 4 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (b. c. 1640)
• October 30 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
• November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1602)
• November 28 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
• November 28 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
• December 4 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
• December 8 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)

See also Category: 1680 deaths.