1680 Facts for Kids

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 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1680 MDCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2433
Armenian calendar	1129 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6430
Balinese saka calendar	1601–1602
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	1601–1602
- Kali Yuga	4780–4781
Holocene calendar	11680
Igbo calendar	680–681
Iranian calendar	1058–1059
Islamic calendar	1090–1091
Japanese calendar	Enpō 8 (延宝８年)
Javanese calendar	1602–1603
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4013
Minguo calendar	232 before ROC 民前232年
Nanakshahi calendar	212
Thai solar calendar	2222–2223
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1806 or 1425 or 653 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1807 or 1426 or 654

Year 1680 was a leap year that started on a Monday when using the Gregorian calendar.

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Events

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.
November 23 – Great Comet of 1680 first sighted.

Undated

Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV): decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
First Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
The Swedish city Karlskrona founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.

Births

January 23 – Joseph Ames, English writer (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)
November 22 – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), pirate (died 1718)
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)
march 4 – 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 Ferr, 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)