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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century17th century18th century
Decades: 1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years: 1677 1678 167916801681 1682 1683
1680 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1680
MDCLXXX
Ab urbe condita2433
Armenian calendar1129
ԹՎ ՌՃԻԹ
Assyrian calendar6430
Balinese saka calendar1601–1602
Bengali calendar1087
Berber calendar2630
English Regnal year31 Cha. 2 – 32 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar2224
Burmese calendar1042
Byzantine calendar7188–7189
Chinese calendar己未(Earth Goat)
4376 or 4316
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4377 or 4317
Coptic calendar1396–1397
Discordian calendar2846
Ethiopian calendar1672–1673
Hebrew calendar5440–5441
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1736–1737
 - Shaka Samvat1601–1602
 - Kali Yuga4780–4781
Holocene calendar11680
Igbo calendar680–681
Iranian calendar1058–1059
Islamic calendar1090–1091
Japanese calendarEnpō 8
(延宝8年)
Javanese calendar1602–1603
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4013
Minguo calendar232 before ROC
民前232年
Nanakshahi calendar212
Thai solar calendar2222–2223
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1806 or 1425 or 653
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
1807 or 1426 or 654

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 17Whigs organize pope-burning processions in London.
  • November 23 – Great Comet of 1680 first sighted.
  • 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 28Gian 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)