1780 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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Historical Event(s)

– 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.
– American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
– American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
– The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
– Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
– French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
– 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.

Who Were Born On ?

– Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
– Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
– Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
– Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
– Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
– François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
– Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
– Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
– Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)