1680

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

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

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)