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)