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1680 (MDCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1680th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 680th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1680, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)