1780 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1780 in Great Britain.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

The Gordon Riots, from a painting by John Seymour Lucas

Undated[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 14 February – William Blackstone, jurist (born 1723)
  • 12 May – Herod, racehorse (born 1758)
  • 18 May – Charles Hardy, governor of Newfoundland (born c. 1714)
  • 3 June – Thomas Hutchinson, American-born last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1711)
  • 4 September – John Fielding, magistrate and social reformer (born 1721)
  • 2 October – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (born 1750)
  • 17 October – William Cookworthy, chemist (born 1705)
  • 26 November – Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, economist (born 1712)
  • 14 December – Ignatius Sancho, composer, actor, writer and ablitionist (born c. 1729 on a slave ship)
  • 26 December – John Fothergill, physician (born 1712)
  • date unknownThomas Dilworth, cleric and writer (year of birth unknown)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 333. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. ^ Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
  4. ^ Hattendorf, John (2000). Naval Policy and Strategy in the Mediterranean: past, present, and future. Taylor & Francis. p. 37. ISBN 0-7146-8054-0.
  5. ^ Harbron, John (1988). Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy. Conway Maritime Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-85177-477-6.
  6. ^ Edler, Friedrich (2001) [1911]. The Dutch Republic and The American Revolution. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific. pp. 163–166. ISBN 0-89875-269-8.
  7. ^ "Inside Buxton's dome". BBC Derbyshire. June 2003. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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