About the day » Tuesday December 26, 1780Calender converter

• Cornelia Kip, Dreischor, Zeeland, Nederland († 1856)
• Antonius Van Bekhoven, Retie († 1833)
• Anna Catharina dekkers (Deckers), Essen (B)
• Akke Wiebesd Wierda, Echten, dr.nld
• Aaltjen Nordeman, Vorden († 1849)
• Anna Meijaard, Kruiningen
• Bastiaan Vermeulen, Piershil, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1844)
• Anna Maria Cornelisse Kerstens, Sprundel († 1827)
• Adriaan Franse Waalbeek, Haamstede († 1786)
• Anny Mary Wilson, Yorford (graafschap Suffolk) († 1868)

• Johanna Laarakker (60), Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• John Kennedy (Canada) (27), Cumberland Gap, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Hannah Boone (75), Dorchester, South Carolina, American Colonies
• Jan Petersen (Jan Jacobs Peelen) Schut (71), Otterlo (GL)
• Froukje Hendriks (35)
• Jan Hoijtink, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• John 1760 Kennedy, Jr. (27), Cumberland Gap, Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States
• JAN Petersen Schut (71), Otterlo
• Francis Francis Berckelmans (67), Helvoirt
• Huigh Huigen De JONG (4)

• 1751 » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint († 1820)
• 1751 » Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician († 1793)
• 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
• 1780 » Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author († 1872)
• 1782 » Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint († 1867)
• 1785 » Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium († 1871)
• 1791 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine († 1871)
• 1803 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author († 1882)
• 1819 » E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator († 1899)
• 1820 » Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright († 1890)

• 1646 » Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)
• 1731 » Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
• 1771 » Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
• 1780 » John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
• 1784 » Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
• 1786 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
• May 13 » The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
• June 23 » American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
• August 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
• November 4 » The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.

The temperature on December 26, 1780 was about -6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder.