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    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...
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  • Information culture Clive, John (July 1959). "Review: Culture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams". The American Historical Review. 64 (4): 934–935...
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  • 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...
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  • Konstantinos Gouvelis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γουβέλης) was an Ottoman-era magnate and politician who took part in the Greek War of Independence. Hailing...
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    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...
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    The year 1780 in architecture involved some significant events. April 17 – Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in France, designed by Victor Louis is inaugurated...
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    into at least four Anglo-Dutch wars: 1652–1654, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 and 1780–1784. Competition arose in 1635 when Charles I granted a trading licence...
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    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...
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    Count Antoni Norbert Potocki hr. Pilawa (1780–1850) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). Son of Józef Makary Potocki and Princess Ludwika Lubomirska, daughter...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Princess Henriëtte of Nassau-Weilburg, then of Nassau (22 April 1780, in Kirchheimbolanden – 2 January 1857, in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German duchess...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Spanish ship San Carlos that Admiral Rodney's squadron captured on 8 January 1780. She was sold as a prize and in 1781 commenced a voyage as an "extra" ship...
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    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...
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    William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and...
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    Events from the year 1780 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William...
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    The San Juan Expedition took place between March and November 1780 during the American War of Independence when a British force under the command of John...
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  • "Review of Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 15 (3): 542–544. doi:10...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • by civil engineer Thomas Telford. Formal excavations continue at Pompeii. 1780 Tomb of the Scipios rediscovered in Rome. Discobolus Palombara discovered...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 1780 Kippes, provisional designation A906 RA, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 28 kilometers in diameter...
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    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...
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  • Isaac Wilson (June 25, 1780 Middlebury, then Vermont Republic, now Addison County, Vermont – October 25, 1848 Batavia, Kane County, Illinois) was an American...
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    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...
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  • The Constitutional Convention of 1779–1780 was the second constitutional convention held in Massachusetts to draft a new state constitution following the...
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