1680

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683

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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

1680 (MDCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1680th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 680th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1680, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

• January 2 – King Amangkurat II of Mataram personally stabs Trunajaya, who had led a failed rebellion against Mataram, during a ceremonial visit.
• February – Rev. Ralph Davenant's will provides for foundation of the Davenant Foundation School for poor boys in Whitechapel, in the East End of London.
• May – The volcano Krakatoa erupts, probably on a relatively small scale.
• June – Elizabeth Cellier, an English Catholic midwife, is tried and acquitted of treason for pamphleting against the government.

July–December[]

• July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• August 20 (August 10 Old Style) – The settlement of Karlskrona in Sweden is founded,^[1] as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.
• August 21 – Pueblo Revolt: Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe (New Mexico) from the Spanish.
• August 24 – Comédie-Française is founded by decree of Louis XIV of France as La maison de Molière in Paris.
• October 9 – A massive earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9 M_w destroyed part of Málaga and other cities in the province of the same name.^[2]
• November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.
• November 17 – Whigs organize processions to burn effigies of the Pope in London.

Date unknown[]

• Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on the complete annexation of Alsace.
• The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau.
• The Riksdag of the Estates in Sweden enacts the Great Reduction, under which fiefs granted to the Swedish nobility are returned to the Crown, and the country becomes an absolute monarchy under King Charles XI.
• Johann Pachelbel writes his Canon in D Major

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)
• April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana, morganatic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (d. 1769)
• 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)
• date unknown – Bulleh Shah, Sufi poet (d. 1757)
• date unknown – Julianna Géczy, Hungarian heroine (d. 1714)
• approximate – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), English pirate (d. 1718)

Deaths[]

January–June[]

• January 2
  • John Jolliffe, English politician and businessman (b. 1613)
  • Trunajaya, Maduran prince and rebel leader, murdered (b. 1649)
• January 18 – John Hervey, English courtier and politician (b. 1616)
• January 20 – Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (b. 1625)
• January 23 – Capel Luckyn, English Member of Parliament (b. 1622)
• February – Ralph Davenant, English rector and founder of Davenant Foundation School
• February 11 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher and Calvinist (b. 1618)
• February 17
  • Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
  • Frans Post, Dutch painter (b. 1612)
  • Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
• February 22 – Catherine Monvoisin, French fortune teller and poisoner (b. c. 1640)
• February 27 – Philippe Balthazar de Gand, French noble (b. 1616)
• March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
• March 17
  • William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, English politician (b. 1631)
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
• March 23 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
• April 1 – David Denicke, German jurist and hymnwriter (b. 1603)
• April 3 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• April 19 – Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671–1680) (b. 1647)
• April 25
  • Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess suo jure of Oława and Wołów (1672–1680) (b. 1631)
  • Simon Paulli, Danish physician (b. 1603)
• April 29 – Nicolas Cotoner, Spanish 61st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1608)
• May 29 – Abraham Megerle, Austrian composer and organist (b. 1607)
• May 31 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
• June 4
  • Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg (b. 1614)
  • Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese Tokugawa shōgun (b. 1641)
• June 18 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
• June 10
  • Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
  • Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)

July–December[]

• July 26
  • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (b. 1647)
  • Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1632)
• July 30 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (b. 1634)
• August 19 – John Eudes, French missionary (b. 1601)
• August 20 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
• August 22 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• August 24
  • Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (b. 1616)
  • Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels (b. 1618)
• August 25 – Symeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (b. 1629)
• August 27 – Joan Cererols, Catalan musician and Benedictine monk (b. 1618)
• August 28 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (b. 1617)
• September 1 – Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Dutch abbess (b. 1619)
• September 2 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
• September 3
  • Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, duchess consort of Württemberg-Bernstadt (b. 1647)
  • Paul Ragueneau, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1608)
• 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)
  • Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
• September 26 – John Dury, Scottish-born Calvinist minister (b. 1596)
• September 30 – Johann Grueber, Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer (b. 1623)
• October 4 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (b. 1609)
• October 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
• October 16 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian general (b. 1609)
• October 17 – Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II (b. 1657)
• October 30 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
• November 9 – Hungerford Dunch, English politician (b. 1639)
• November 27 or November 28 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1602)
• November 28
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
  • Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
• November 30 – Peter Lely, Dutch painter (b. 1618)
• December 4 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
• December 8 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
• December 10 – Marco Uccellini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1603 or 1610)
• December 20 – Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (b. 1619)
• December 29
  • Arent Berntsen, Norwegian statistician (b. 1610)
  • William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford of England (b. 1614)
• November 30 – Christopher Sandius, Dutch Arian writer (b. 1644)

Unknown date[]

• Zhou Youde, Chinese official
• Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (b. 1610)

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