March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.
Day of burial July 3, 1780
The temperature on July 3, 1780 was about 18.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
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