🕰️ Year
What Happened in 1780 — Events, Births & Deaths
1780 brings together 4 events, 0 birthdays and 0 deaths recorded across history.
January 1
- January 16
American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
March 1
- March 14
American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
June 1
- June 2
The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.
October 1
- October 2
American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.