1680
Years:
1677 1678 1679 - 1680 - 1681 1682 1683Decades:
1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710sCenturies:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1680 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music
Events
- July 8 - The first documented Tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- August 21 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe 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 (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)
- 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)
- December 11 - Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer
- John Machin, English mathematician (d. 1752)
Deaths
- February 17 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
- February 17 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
- February 22 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress
- 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 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
- May 31 - Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
- August 22 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- August 24 - Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (b. 1618)
- June 10 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- July 10 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (b. 1643)
- 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)
- 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)
- September 11 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
- October 4 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder
- October 30 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- November 27 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
- November 28 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- November 28 - 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)