1680

This article is about the year 1680. For the number, see 1680 (number).

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 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1680 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1680 MDCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2433
Armenian calendar	1129 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6430
Bengali calendar	1087
Berber calendar	2630
English Regnal year	31 Cha. 2 – 32 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2224
Burmese calendar	1042
Byzantine calendar	7188–7189
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 4376 or 4316     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4377 or 4317
Coptic calendar	1396–1397
Discordian calendar	2846
Ethiopian calendar	1672–1673
Hebrew calendar	5440–5441
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1736–1737
- Shaka Samvat	1602–1603
- Kali Yuga	4781–4782
Holocene calendar	11680
Igbo calendar	680–681
Iranian calendar	1058–1059
Islamic calendar	1090–1091
Japanese calendar	Enpō 8 (延宝８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4013
Minguo calendar	232 before ROC 民前232年
Thai solar calendar	2222–2223

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

Events

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.
• August 24 – Comédie-Française is founded by decree of Louis XIV of France as La maison de Molière in Paris.
• November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.
• November 17 – Whigs organize processions to burn effigies of the pope in London.

Date unknown

• Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
• The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
• The Riksdag of the Estates in Sweden enacts the Great Reduction, under which fiefs granted to the Swedish nobility are returned to the Crown, and the country becomes an absolute monarchy under King Charles XI.
• The Swedish city of Karlskrona is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Births

• 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)
• April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana – morganatic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (d. 1769)
• 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)

Deaths

January–June

• 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)
• April 3 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• April 29 – Nicolas Cotoner, 61st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b.1608)
• 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)
  • Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)

July–December

• 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 16 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian general (b. 1609)
• 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)
  • 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)
• December 10 – Marco Uccellini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1603 or 1610)

Unknown date

• John Dury, English minister (b. 1596)