1680

## 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.

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- 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)