1680

Year 1680 was a leap year that started on a Monday when using the Gregorian calendar.
Events
February - the Reverend Ralph Davenant dies leaving PS100 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 Nericault 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 - Rene Le Bossu, French critic (born 1631)
March 17 - Francois 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 Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (born 1635)
July 10 - Louis Moreri, 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)