January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Day of marriage April 9, 1780
The temperature on April 9, 1780 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast by east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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).
October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
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 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
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