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 1780 in Great Britain: |
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Events from the year 1780 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory
Events
- 16 January - American Revolutionary War: British victory at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent over a Spanish squadron.
- 8 March - American Revolutionary War: The League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia to try to prevent the Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband.[1]
- 4 May - The first Epsom Derby horse race is run at Epsom Downs, Surrey.[1] The victor is Diomed.[2]
- 12 May - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.[1]
- 2 June - Gordon Riots in London.[2]
- 10 July - American Revolutionary War: 6,000 French troops led by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau land in Newport, Rhode Island but are pinned down by the British.[1]
- September - Outbreak of the Second Anglo-Mysore War in India.[1]
- 16 August - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden — The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.[2]
- 2 October - American Revolutionary War: British spy John André is hanged by American forces.
- 7 October - American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia defeat the Loyalist militia at the Battle of Kings Mountain.[1]
- 20 November - American Revolutionary War: Britain declares war on the Dutch Republic to stop it from joining the League of Armed Neutrality.[1]
Births
- 21 May - Elizabeth Fry, humanitarian (died 1845)
- 26 December - Mary Fairfax Somerville, mathematician (died 1872)
- date unknown - John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1862)
Deaths
- 14 February - William Blackstone, jurist (born 1723)
- 18 May - Charles Hardy, governor of Newfoundland (born c. 1714)
- 4 September - John Fielding, magistrate and social reformer (born 1721)
- 2 October - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (born 1750)
- 17 October - William Cookworthy, chemist (born 1705)
- 26 November - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, economist (born 1712)
- 26 December - John Fothergill, physician (born 1712)
- date unknown - Thomas Dilworth, cleric and writer (year of birth unknown)
References
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