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182 relations: Admiral, Alexander Hamilton, American Revolutionary War, An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Anastasio Bustamante, Andreas Felix von Oefele, Anti-Catholicism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Aymara people, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Banastre Tarleton, Barbados, Battle of Camden, Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), Battle of Kings Mountain, Battle of Springfield, Battle of Waxhaws, Benedict Arnold, Bible, Boston, Bourbon Reforms, Bourbon whiskey, Camden, South Carolina, Cape St. Vincent, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Carl von Clausewitz, Charles Batteux, Charles Hardy, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, Charles Nodier, Charleston, South Carolina, Continental Army, Convoy, Craven Cottage, Cumberland Compact, David Porter (naval officer), Denmark, Det Dramatiske Selskab, Diomed, Distillation, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, East Indiaman, Edinoverie, Elizabeth Butchill, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Philpot, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Emilie Petersen, ... Expand index (132 more) »
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.
See 1780 and Admiral
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.
See 1780 and Alexander Hamilton
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
See 1780 and American Revolutionary War
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Fifth Pennsylvania General Assembly on 1 March 1780, prescribed an end for slavery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States.
See 1780 and An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Anastasio Bustamante
Trinidad Anastasio de Sales Ruiz Bustamante y Oseguera (27 July 1780 – 6 February 1853) was a Mexican physician, general, and politician who served as the 4th President of Mexico three times from 1830 to 1832, 1837 to 1839, and 1839 to 1841.
See 1780 and Anastasio Bustamante
Andreas Felix von Oefele
Andreas Felix von Oefele (17 May 1706 – 17 February 1780) was a German historian and librarian.
See 1780 and Andreas Felix von Oefele
Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholicism, also known as Catholophobia is hostility towards Catholics and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and its adherents.
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
See 1780 and Archbishop of Canterbury
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
See 1780 and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Aymara people
The Aymara or Aimara (aymara), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (30 September 17142 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher, epistemologist, and Catholic priest, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind.
See 1780 and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Banastre Tarleton
Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet (21 August 175415 January 1833) was a British general and politician.
See 1780 and Banastre Tarleton
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
Battle of Camden
The Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780), also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)
The Battle of Cape St.
See 1780 and Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots.
See 1780 and Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Springfield
The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780, in Union County, New Jersey.
See 1780 and Battle of Springfield
Battle of Waxhaws
The Battle of Waxhaws (also known as the Waxhaws Massacre and Buford's Massacre) was a military engagement which took place on May 29, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War between a Patriot force led by Abraham Buford and a British force led by Banastre Tarleton near Lancaster, South Carolina.
See 1780 and Battle of Waxhaws
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold (Brandt (1994), p. 4June 14, 1801) was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War.
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
See 1780 and Bible
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
See 1780 and Boston
Bourbon Reforms
The Bourbon Reforms (lit) consisted of political and economic changes promulgated by the Spanish Crown under various kings of the House of Bourbon, mainly in the 18th century.
Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey (or simply bourbon) is a type of barrel-aged American whiskey made primarily from corn (maize).
Camden, South Carolina
Camden is the largest city and county seat of Kershaw County, South Carolina.
See 1780 and Camden, South Carolina
Cape St. Vincent
Cape St.
Captaincy General of Guatemala
The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including the present-day nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and the Mexican state of Chiapas.
See 1780 and Captaincy General of Guatemala
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war.
See 1780 and Carl von Clausewitz
Charles Batteux
Charles Batteux (6 May 171314 July 1780) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.
Charles Hardy
Sir Charles Hardy (– 18 May 1780) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1764 and 1780.
Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Charles (German: Karl; 1 August 1713, Braunschweig – 26 March 1780, Braunschweig), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Bevern line), reigned as Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1735 until his death.
See 1780 and Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny, (22 February 1735 – 29 December 1806), styled Earl of March until 1750, of Goodwood House in Sussex and of Richmond House in London, was a British Army officer and politician.
See 1780 and Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Charles Nodier
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 – 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.
See 1780 and Charleston, South Carolina
Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
Convoy
A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.
See 1780 and Convoy
Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham since 1896.
Cumberland Compact
The Cumberland Compact was signed at a Longhunter and native American trading post and camp near the French Lick aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and John Donelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee.
See 1780 and Cumberland Compact
David Porter (naval officer)
David Porter (February 1, 1780 – March 3, 1843) was an officer in the United States Navy in the rank of captain and the honorary title of commodore.
See 1780 and David Porter (naval officer)
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
See 1780 and Denmark
Det Dramatiske Selskab
Det Dramatiske Selskab is the name for several Norwegian amateur theatre drama troupes.
See 1780 and Det Dramatiske Selskab
Diomed
Diomed (1777–1808) was an English Thoroughbred race horse who won the inaugural running of the Epsom Derby in 1780.
See 1780 and Diomed
Distillation
Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Luise Amalie; 29 January 1722 – 13 January 1780) was daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Duchess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
See 1780 and Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.
Edinoverie
Edinoverie (p, literally “coreligionism”) is an arrangement between certain Russian Old Believer communities and the official Russian Orthodox Church, whereby such communities are treated as a part of the normative Church system while maintaining their own rites.
Elizabeth Butchill
Elizabeth Butchill (ca. 1758–1780) was an English woman who was tried and executed for the murder of her illegitimate newborn child.
See 1780 and Elizabeth Butchill
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker.
Elizabeth Philpot
Elizabeth Philpot (1779–1857) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, amateur palaeontologist and artist who collected fossils from the cliffs around Lyme Regis in Dorset on the southern coast of England.
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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton (née Schuyler; August 9, 1757 – November 9, 1854) was an American socialite and philanthropist.
See 1780 and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Emilie Petersen
Emilie Charlotta Petersen, née Eckert (15 July 1780 in Hamburg – 10 January 1859 in Kärda), known as (The Herrestad Grandmother), was a Swedish landowner and philanthropist.
Emperor Kōkaku
, posthumously honored as, was the 119th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Enoch Poor
Enoch Poor (June 21, 1736 (Old Style) – September 8, 1780) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Epsom Derby
The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies.
Ernst Anschütz
Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz (28 October 1780 in Goldlauter near Suhl, Electorate of Saxony – 18 December 1861 (other sources: 11 December 1861) in Leipzig) was a German teacher, organist, poet, and composer.
Executioner
An executioner, also known as a hangman or headsman, is an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person.
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
First League of Armed Neutrality
The First League of Armed Neutrality was an alliance of European naval powers between 1780 and 1783 which was intended to protect neutral shipping against the British Royal Navy's wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband during the American Revolutionary War and Anglo-French War.
See 1780 and First League of Armed Neutrality
Fortress of the Immaculate Conception
The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, (Spanish: El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción) is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River (Río San Juan), in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua.
See 1780 and Fortress of the Immaculate Conception
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (Vierde Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.
See 1780 and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
François Carlo Antommarchi
François Carlo Antommarchi (5 July 1780 – 4 March 1838) was Napoleon's physician from 1819 to his death in 1821.
See 1780 and François Carlo Antommarchi
Françoise Basseporte
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, (28 April 1701 – 6 September 1780) was a French painter.
See 1780 and Françoise Basseporte
Frigate
A frigate is a type of warship.
See 1780 and Frigate
Fulham F.C.
Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.
George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer.
See 1780 and George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
Gerhard Schøning
Gerhard Schøning (2 May 1722 – 18 July 1780) was a Norwegian historian.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
See 1780 and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Gordon Riots
The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment.
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (26 April 1780, in Hohenstein-Ernstthal – 30 June 1860, in Laufzorn, a village in Oberhaching) was a German physician, naturalist and psychologist.
See 1780 and Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
Great Hurricane of 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere.
See 1780 and Great Hurricane of 1780
HDMS Printz Friderich (1764)
HDMS Printz Friderich was a ship-of-the-line launched in 1764, to a design by Frederik Michael Krabbe, a naval officer and leading ship designer of that period.
See 1780 and HDMS Printz Friderich (1764)
Henri Braconnot
Henri Braconnot (29 May 178013 January 1855) was a French chemist and pharmacist.
Henry Baldwin (judge)
Henry Baldwin (January 14, 1780 – April 21, 1844) was an American judge who was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 6, 1830, to April 21, 1844.
See 1780 and Henry Baldwin (judge)
Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher.
See 1780 and Henry George Bohn
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum, Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (Imperator Germanorum, Roman-German emperor), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire.
See 1780 and Holy Roman Emperor
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
See 1780 and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.
See 1780 and House of Habsburg
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was a Portuguese Jewish educator and academic.
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism.
See 1780 and Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Jahonotin Uvaysiy
Jahonotin Uvaysiy (1780–1845) was a Sufi poet from Margilon in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan.
See 1780 and Jahonotin Uvaysiy
Jakab Fellner
Jakab Fellner (Fellenthali Fellner Jakab; 25 July 1722 – 12 December 1780) was the most important Baroque architect of his generation in Hungary.
James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury
James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (20 October 1713 – 19 September 1780) was a British nobleman, politician, and peer.
See 1780 and James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury
James Justinian Morier
James Justinian Morier (15 August 1782 – 19 March 1849) was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about the Qajar dynasty in Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series.
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James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
James Steuart (economist)
Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness (21 October 1712 – 26 November 1780), also known as Sir James Steuart Denham, was a prominent Scottish Jacobite and author of "probably the first systematic treatise written in English about economics" and the first book in English with 'political economy' in the title.
See 1780 and James Steuart (economist)
Jameson Irish Whiskey
Jameson is a blended Irish whiskey produced by the Irish Distillers subsidiary of Pernod Ricard.
See 1780 and Jameson Irish Whiskey
Jørgen Jørgensen
Jørgen Jørgensen (name of birth: Jürgensen, and changed to Jorgenson from 1817) (29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.
See 1780 and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃ ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged adaptation of the 1740 fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.
See 1780 and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Johann de Kalb
Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb (June 19, 1721 – August 19, 1780), born Johann Kalb, was a Franconian-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli
Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli (16 December 1716 - 15 January 1780) was a Swiss agronomist who founded the Economic Society of Berne in 1758.
See 1780 and Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp.
See 1780 and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
John André
Major John André (May 2, 1750 – October 2, 1780) was a British Army officer who served as the head of Britain's intelligence operations during the American War of Independence.
John Bird Sumner
John Bird Sumner (25 February 1780 – 6 September 1862) was a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.
John Fielding
Sir John Fielding (16 September 1721 – 4 September 1780) was an English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century.
John Fothergill (physician)
John Fothergill FRS (8 March 1712 – 26 December 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist, and Quaker.
See 1780 and John Fothergill (physician)
John McKinley
John McKinley (May 1, 1780 – July 19, 1852) was a United States Senator from the state of Alabama and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
See 1780 and John Quincy Adams
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death.
See 1780 and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph Ritner
Joseph Ritner (March 25, 1780 – October 16, 1869) was the eighth governor of Pennsylvania, and was a member of the Anti-Masonic Party.
Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
See 1780 and Kingdom of Great Britain
Kobbergrund
Kobbergrund is a shoal in the Kattegat 11 kilometers (7 miles) East South East of the Danish island of Læsø, lying close to the main shipping lanes from the south.
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (Christian Donalitius; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor.
See 1780 and Kristijonas Donelaitis
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
See 1780 and London
Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780.
See 1780 and Lord George Gordon
Louis Legrand (theologian)
Louis Legrand, S.S. (b. Lusigny-sur-Ouche, Burgundy, 12 June 1711, d. at Issy, Île-de-France, 21 July 1780) was a French Sulpician priest and theologian, and a Doctor of the Sorbonne.
See 1780 and Louis Legrand (theologian)
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
Loyalist (American Revolution)
Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.
See 1780 and Loyalist (American Revolution)
Luis de Córdova y Córdova
Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova (8 February 1706 – 29 July 1796) was a Spanish admiral.
See 1780 and Luis de Córdova y Córdova
Madame du Deffand
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (25 September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts.
See 1780 and Madame du Deffand
Manuela Medina
Manuela Medina (1780-1822) was a woman who fought on the forefront of combat during the Mexican War of Independence.
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right).
Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville (formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath.
Münster
Münster (Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
See 1780 and Mestizo
Mihail G. Boiagi
Mihail George Boiagi (3 February 1780 – 1828, 1842 or 1843) was an Aromanian grammarian and professor in the Habsburg monarchy and the Austrian Empire.
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New England's Dark Day
New England's Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states and parts of eastern Canada.
See 1780 and New England's Dark Day
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
Nikephoros Theotokis
Nikephoros Theotokis or Nikiforos Theotokis (Никифор Феотоки or Никифор Феотокис; 1731–1800) was a Greek scholar and theologian, who became an archbishop in the southern provinces of the Russian Empire.
See 1780 and Nikephoros Theotokis
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
See 1780 and North Rhine-Westphalia
Old Believers
Old Believers or Old Ritualists are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.
See 1780 and Old Style and New Style dates
Oslo
Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
See 1780 and Oslo
Parliament of Great Britain
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.
See 1780 and Parliament of Great Britain
Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson (1744 – 7 October 1780) was a Scottish officer in the British Army, an early advocate of light infantry and the designer of the Ferguson rifle.
Patriot (American Revolution)
Patriots, also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control and governance during the colonial era, and supported and helped launch the American Revolution that ultimately established American independence.
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Pauline Bonaparte
Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano.
See 1780 and Pauline Bonaparte
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Pierre Jean Robiquet
Pierre Jean Robiquet (13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist.
See 1780 and Pierre Jean Robiquet
President of Mexico
The president of Mexico (Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States (Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico.
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Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander Emanuel of Lorraine (Charles Alexandre Emanuel, Prince de Lorraine; Karl Alexander von Lothringen und Bar; 12 December 1712 in Lunéville – 4 July 1780 in Tervuren) was a Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier, field marshal of the Imperial Army, and governor of the Austrian Netherlands.
See 1780 and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Quechua people
Quechua people or Quichua people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru.
Radio Romania International
Radio Romania International (Romanian: Radio România Internațional, or RRI) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts abroad.
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Ranjit Singh
Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.
Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II
The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II (4 November 1780 – 15 March 1783) was an uprising by cacique-led Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo rebels aimed at overthrowing Spanish colonial rule in Peru.
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Richard McCarty (politician)
Richard McCarty (February 19, 1780 – May 18, 1844) was an American politician from New York.
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Richard Rush
Richard Rush (August 29, 1780 – July 30, 1859) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the 8th United States Attorney General from 1814 to 1817 and the 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1825 to 1829.
Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Rochefort (Ròchafòrt), unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer (Ròchafòrt de Mar) for disambiguation, is a city and commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
Samuel Egerton
Samuel Egerton (28 December 1711 – 10 February 1780) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780.
San Juan Expedition (1780)
The San Juan Expedition took place between March and November 1780 during the American War of Independence when a British force under the command of John Polson and Captain Horatio Nelson landed on the coast of the present-day Nicaragua, with the aim of sailing up the San Juan River to capture the strategically crucial towns of Granada and León, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua.
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San Juan River (Nicaragua)
The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea.
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Sikh Empire
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean.
Sofia Hjärne
Gustafva Sofia Hjärne (4 July 1780 – 6 March 1860), was a Finnish baroness, writer and salon holder.
Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Túpac Amaru II
José Gabriel Condorcanqui (– 18 May 1781)known as Tupaq Amaru II was an Indigenous leader who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru as self-proclaimed Sapa Inca of a new Inca Empire.
Thomas Dilworth
The Reverend Mr.
Thomas Hutchinson (governor)
Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
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Thomas Townshend (MP)
The Honourable Thomas Townshend (2 June 1701 – 21 May 1780), of Frognal House, Kent, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 52 years from 1722 to 1774.
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Ulrika Strömfelt
Ulrika Eleonora Strömfelt (1724 – 5 April 1780) was a politically active Swedish noble and courtier.
United States Attorney General
The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States.
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University of Münster
The University of Münster (Universität Münster, until 2023 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
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Utilitarianism
In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals.
Viceroyalty of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
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West Point, New York
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.
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William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law.
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William Cookworthy
He was born of Quaker parents in Kingsbridge, Devon on 12 April 1705.
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William Craven, 6th Baron Craven
William Craven, 6th Baron Craven (11 September 1738 – 26 September 1791) was an English nobleman and a landowner.
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William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.
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Woodford Reserve
Woodford Reserve is a brand of premium small batch Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey produced in Woodford County, Kentucky, by the Brown-Forman Corporation.
1701
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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1705
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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1706
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Monday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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1711
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
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1712
In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. 1780 and 1712 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1715
For dates within Great Britain and the British Empire, as well as in the Russian Empire, the "old style" Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style" Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire in 1752 and in Russia in 1923) by adding 11 days.
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1750
Various sources, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the pre-industrial era.
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1844
In the Philippines, this was the only leap year with 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after. 1780 and 1844 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
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1867
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska.
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1872
In Japan, this leap year runs with only 354 days as the country dropped 12 days in the month of December. 1780 and 1872 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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References
Also known as 1780 (year), 1780 AD, 1780 CE, 1780 births, 1780 deaths, 1780 events, AD 1780, Births in 1780, Deaths in 1780, Events in 1780, MDCCLXXX, Year 1780.