- 1780 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1780 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Frederick North, Lord North ,Tory Events
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16 January -American Revolutionary War : British victory at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent over a Spanish squadron.
*8 March - American Revolutionary War: TheLeague of Armed Neutrality is formed byRussia to try to prevent theRoyal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=333]
*4 May - The firstEpsom Derby horse race is run at Epsom Downs,Surrey . The victor isDiomed .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*12 May - American Revolutionary War:Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
*2 June -Gordon Riots inLondon .
*10 July - American Revolutionary War: 6,000 French troops led byJean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau land inNewport, Rhode Island but are pinned down by the British.
* September - Outbreak of theSecond Anglo-Mysore War inIndia .
*16 August - American Revolutionary War:Battle of Camden — The British defeat the Americans nearCamden, South Carolina .
*2 October - American Revolutionary War: British spyJohn André is hanged by American forces.
*7 October - American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia defeat the Loyalist militia at theBattle of Kings Mountain .
*20 November - American Revolutionary War: Britain declares war on theDutch Republic to stop it from joining the League of Armed Neutrality.Births
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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
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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 - SirJames 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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