Important Historical Events of the year 1780, Year 1780 in History

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What happened in the year 1780?

Date	Event
January 16, 1780	American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
March 14, 1780	American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
April 16, 1780	Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
May 12, 1780	American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
May 13, 1780	The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
May 19, 1780	New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
May 29, 1780	American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
June 2, 1780	The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.
June 23, 1780	American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
August 16, 1780	American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
August 22, 1780	James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
September 11, 1780	American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
September 21, 1780	American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
October 2, 1780	American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
October 7, 1780	American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina, often regarded as the turning point in the war's Southern theater.
October 10, 1780	The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
October 16, 1780	American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
October 16, 1780	The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
November 4, 1780	The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
November 5, 1780	French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
November 9, 1780	American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
December 14, 1780	Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.