• Thumbnail for 1780
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1780. 1780 (MDCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
    18 KB (2,003 words) - 12:29, 17 April 2024
  • Information culture Clive, John (July 1959). "Review: Culture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams". The American Historical Review. 64 (4): 934–935...
    3 KB (191 words) - 08:32, 23 January 2024
  • 1780s BC (redirect from 1780 BC)
    1780s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1789 BC to December 31, 1780 BC. c. 1780 BC - The last known population of woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island...
    1 KB (141 words) - 14:03, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Theresa
    Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position...
    109 KB (12,839 words) - 13:06, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
    Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess...
    5 KB (212 words) - 13:43, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1780 in sports
    1780 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events It was probably during this year that Harry Sellers reclaimed the vacant English Championship...
    3 KB (239 words) - 10:03, 4 April 2024
  • The 1780 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned after the merger...
    4 KB (251 words) - 13:10, 29 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Great Hurricane of 1780
    The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated...
    20 KB (2,213 words) - 02:41, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Central Park Tower
    process, the tower was delayed after two buildings at 225 West 57th Street and 1780 Broadway were considered for New York City landmark status. Despite uncertainty...
    151 KB (13,219 words) - 14:20, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit
    depicted Olaudah Equiano and to have been painted by Joshua Reynolds c. 1780 with the title Portrait of a Negro Man. The painting featured as part of...
    3 KB (256 words) - 09:19, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Ellery Channing
    William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and...
    18 KB (1,975 words) - 19:37, 12 April 2024
  • Minuscule 1780 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) δ 412 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 198 parchment leaves...
    5 KB (446 words) - 15:20, 13 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
    The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (Dutch: Vierde Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic...
    29 KB (3,856 words) - 14:41, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Ranger (1777)
    USS Ranger was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, serving from 1777–1780 and the first to bear her name. Built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Badger's...
    13 KB (1,255 words) - 03:17, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1780s
    1780s (redirect from 1780-1789)
    "seventeen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional...
    3 KB (25,344 words) - 23:57, 4 April 2024
  • An earthquake affected the island of Java, Indonesia on 22 January 1780. The source and magnitude of the earthquake remains debated among seismologists...
    7 KB (731 words) - 05:25, 2 January 2024
  • "Review of Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 15 (3): 542–544. doi:10...
    5 KB (503 words) - 03:16, 18 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Antoni Potocki (1780–1850)
    Count Antoni Norbert Potocki hr. Pilawa (1780–1850) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). Son of Józef Makary Potocki and Princess Ludwika Lubomirska, daughter...
    3 KB (159 words) - 04:57, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for New England's Dark Day
    New England's Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states and parts of eastern...
    18 KB (1,626 words) - 01:01, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Revolutionary War
    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1780)
    served on the American side from 1775 to 1780; after defecting, he served on the British side from 1780 to 1783. 1780–1783 The total in active duty service...
    296 KB (29,869 words) - 11:05, 22 April 2024
  • 1780 Kippes, provisional designation A906 RA, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 28 kilometers in diameter...
    15 KB (964 words) - 20:26, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Somerset House
    based on Inigo Jones's drawings for the riverfront of the former palace. By 1780 the North Wing was finished and occupied, and Chambers reported to Parliament...
    62 KB (7,069 words) - 15:57, 27 April 2024
  • Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition. 1780–1782 Emanuel Bach revises his Magnificat Wq 215 (H 772) (Hamburg version)...
    6 KB (733 words) - 04:54, 28 December 2023
  • Washington - D.C. (1989) Pacifica Lodge, San Francisco-CA (1986) L'Hermione 1780 Lodge, Baltimore - MD (2016) Star of the two Worlds, Fort Lauderdale (Florida)...
    34 KB (3,714 words) - 15:17, 2 April 2024
  • Joseph Ellicott (1732–1780) was one of three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Province who purchased land on the Patapsco River and set...
    2 KB (210 words) - 12:15, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
    December 1780. Admiral Rodney spent the years of 1780 and 1781 in the Caribbean to plundering and sacking the Dutch Caribbean islands. By December 1780, the...
    65 KB (8,248 words) - 07:56, 29 March 2024
  • Konstantinos Gouvelis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γουβέλης) was an Ottoman-era magnate and politician who took part in the Greek War of Independence. Hailing...
    1 KB (152 words) - 19:24, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Messier
    P1 (Messier) D/1770 L1 (Lexell) C/1771 G1 (Messier) C/1773 T1 (Messier) C/1780 U2 (Messier) C/1788 W1 (Messier) C/1793 S2 (Messier) C/1798 G1 (Messier)...
    13 KB (1,266 words) - 23:16, 26 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1776
    Woodfall. 18 Geo. 3. c. 1 (1778), 19 Geo. 3. c. 1 (1779), 20 Geo. 3. c. 5 (1780), 21 Geo. 3. c. 2 (1781), 22 Geo. 3. c. 1 (1782). Statutes at Large, vol...
    9 KB (188 words) - 21:22, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blind Man's Buff (Fragonard, 1775–1780)
    is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced ca. 1775–1780 after the artist's second journey to Italy in 1773–74. It is now in the Timken...
    1 KB (114 words) - 09:23, 19 June 2023