1780 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1780?
- January 8, 1780 – An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
- January 16, 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- March 14, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
- March 17, 1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
- April 16, 1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
- May 12, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
- May 13, 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
- May 19, 1780 – New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
- May 29, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
- June 23, 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
- August 16, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
- August 22, 1780 – James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- September 21, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- September 24, 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
- October 2, 1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
- October 7, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- October 10, 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
- October 16, 1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
- November 5, 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- November 9, 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
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