1680

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1680 (MDCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

• Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV): decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
• 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 - an eruption occurs at the volcano Krakatoa, probably on a relatively small scale.
• July 8 - The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• August 21 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe (New Mexico) from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
• November 17 - Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.
• First Portuguese governor appointed to Macau
• The Swedish city Karlskrona founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Births

• January 23 - Joseph Ames, English author (died 1759)
• February 14 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (died 1737)
• February 23 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (died 1767)
• April 9 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (died 1754)
• June 22 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (died 1754)
• September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)
• October 19 - John Abernethy, Irish protestant minister (died 1740)
• date unknown - John Machin, English mathematician (died 1752)

Deaths

• February - Reverend Ralph Davenant, founder of Davenant Foundation School
• February 17
  • Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (born 1599)
  • Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (born 1637)
• February 22 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (born c.1607)
• March 14 - René Le Bossu, French critic (born 1631)
• March 17 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (born 1613)
• March 23 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (born 1615)
• April 3 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (born 1630)
• May 31 - Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (born 1650)
• June 18 - Samuel Butler, English poet (born 1612)
• June 10 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (born 1635)
• July 10 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (born 1643)
• July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (born 1647)
• July 30 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (born 1634)
• August 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (born 1650)
• August 22 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (born 1613)
• August 24 - Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (born 1618)
• August 25 - Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (born 1629)
• September 2 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (born 1602)
• September 9 - Henry Marten, English regicide (born 1602)
• September 10 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (born 1610)
• September 11
  • Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (born 1621)
  • Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (born 1596)
• October 4 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (born c.1640)
• October 30 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (born 1616)
• November 27 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (born 1602)
• November 28 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (born 1598)
• November 28 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (born 1606)
• December 4 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (born 1616)
• December 8 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (born 1606)