1780 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1780 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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16 January - American Revolutionary War: British victory at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent over a Spanish squadron.
8 March - American Revolutionary War: The League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia to try to prevent the Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband.^[1]
4 May - The first Epsom Derby horse race is run at Epsom Downs, Surrey.^[1] The victor is Diomed.^[2]
12 May - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.^[1]
2 June - Gordon Riots in London.^[2]
10 July - American Revolutionary War: 6,000 French troops led by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau land in Newport, Rhode Island but are pinned down by the British.^[1]
September - Outbreak of the Second Anglo-Mysore War in India.^[1]
16 August - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden — The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.^[2]
2 October - American Revolutionary War: British spy John André is hanged by American forces.
7 October - American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia defeat the Loyalist militia at the Battle of Kings Mountain.^[1]
20 November - American Revolutionary War: Britain declares war on the Dutch Republic to stop it from joining the League of Armed Neutrality.^[1]

14 February - William Blackstone, jurist (born 1723)
18 May - Charles Hardy, governor of Newfoundland (born c. 1714)
4 September - John Fielding, magistrate and social reformer (born 1721)
2 October - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (born 1750)
17 October - William Cookworthy, chemist (born 1705)
26 November - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, economist (born 1712)
26 December - John Fothergill, physician (born 1712)
date unknown - Thomas Dilworth, cleric and writer (year of birth unknown)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 333. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.