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Events from the year1780 in theUnited States.

• President of theSecond Continental Congress:Samuel Huntington

• January 16 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Cape St. Vincent: BritishAdmiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
• February 3 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Young's House
• March 1 –Pennsylvania is the first American state to abolish slavery.
• March 29–May 12 –American Revolutionary War:Siege of Charleston

• April 14 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Monck's Corner
• May 6 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Lenud's Ferry
• May 12 –American Revolutionary War:Charleston, South Carolina is taken byBritish forces.
• May 13 –Cumberland Compact signed by American settlers in the Cumberland Valley of Tennessee.
• May 19 –New England's Dark Day: An unaccountable darkness spreads overNew England, regarded by some observers as a fulfillment ofBible prophecy.
• May 25–August 4 –American Revolutionary War:Bird's invasion of Kentucky
• May 29 – American Revolutionary War:Waxhaw Massacre:Loyalist forces under Col.Banastre Tarleton kill surrenderingAmerican soldiers.
• June 7 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Connecticut Farms
• June 10 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Mobley's Meeting House
• June 20 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Ramsour's Mill
• June 23 – American Revolutionary War –Battle of Springfield: The American victory atSpringfield effectively ends British ambitions inNew Jersey.

• July 11 –Expédition Particulière: French soldiers arrive in Newport, Rhode Island to reinforce colonists in theAmerican Revolutionary War.^[1]
• July 12 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Williamson's Plantation
• July 21 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Colson's Mill
• August 1 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Rocky Mount
• August 6 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Hanging Rock
• August 8 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Piqua
• August 16 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Camden: British troops inflict heavy losses on a Patriot army atCamden, South Carolina.
• August 18
  • American Revolutionary War:Battle of Fishing Creek
  • American Revolutionary War:Battle of Musgrove Mill
• August 28 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Black Mingo
• September 21
  • American Revolutionary War:Battle of Wahab's Plantation
  • Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans ofWest Point to MajorJohn André. Three days later, André is captured with papers revealing that Arnold was planning to surrender West Point to the British.
• September 25 –Benedict Arnold flees to British-heldNew York.
• September 26 –American Revolutionary War:Battle of Charlotte

• October 2 – American Revolutionary War: InTappan, New York,British spyJohn André is hanged by American forces.
• October 7 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Kings Mountain:Patriot militia forces annihilate aLoyalists under British MajorPatrick Ferguson at Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
• October 9 – Great Hurricane of 1780: The deadliest Atlantic Hurricane in recorded history
• October 16 –American Revolutionary War –Royalton Raid
• October 17 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Shallow Ford
• October 19 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Klock's Field
• October 25
  • American Revolutionary War –Battle of Tearcoat Swamp
  • John Hancock is sworn in as the firstgovernor of Massachusetts.
• November 9 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Fishdam Ford
• November 20 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Blackstock's Farm

• Woodford Reservebourbon whiskeydistillery begins operation inKentucky.

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

• January 14 –Henry Baldwin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1830 to 1844 (died1844)^[2]
• January 30 –Israel Pickens, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1821 to 1825 (died1827)
• February 1 –David Porter, naval officer (died1843)
• February 19 –Richard McCarty, politician (died1844)
• March 1 –Oliver C. Comstock, U.S. representative from New York (died1860)
• March 6 –Lucy Barnes, religious writer (died1809)
• March 20 –Thomas Metcalfe, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1848 to 1849 (died1855)
• March 25 –Joseph Ritner, politician (died1869)
• April 4 –Edward Hicks, painter (died1849)
• April 7 –William Ellery Channing, influential Unitarian theologian and minister (died1842)
• May 1 –John McKinley, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1837 to 1852 (died1852)
• June 21 –Martin D. Hardin, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1816 to 1817 (died1823)
• July 9 –Ephraim Bateman, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1826 to 1829 (died1829)
• August 20 –William Woodbridge, Governor of Michigan from 1840 to 1841 and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1841 to 1847 (died1861)
• August 29 –Richard Rush,U.S. Attorney General under James Madison;U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under John Q. Adams (died1859)
• September 8 –George Troup, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1816 to 1818 and from 1829 to 1833 (died1856)
• October 17 –Richard Mentor Johnson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1829 and 9thvice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 (died1850)
• October 22 –John Forsyth, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1818 to 1819 and from 1829 to 1834 (died1841)
• October 25
  • Philip Hone,Mayor of New York City from 1826 to 1827 (died1851)
  • Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (died1827)
• November 8 –Samuel A. Foote, Governor of Connecticut from 1834 to 1835; U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1827 to 1833 (died1846)
• December 31 –Gideon Tomlinson, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1831 to 1837 (died1854)
• William Cardell, grammarian and story writer for boys (died1828)

• January 31 –Jonathan Carver, explorer (born1710)
• June 3 –Thomas Hutchinson, last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born1711)
• August 19 –Johann de Kalb, Franconian-French major general in theContinental Army, mortally wounded in Battle of Camden (born1721 in Principality of Bayreuth)
• September 8 –Enoch Poor, brigadier general in the Continental Army (born1736)
• October 2 –John André, British Army officer, hanged as a spy by the Continental Army (born1750 in Great Britain)
• Joseph Green, poet, satirist and clergyman (born1706)

• Timeline of the American Revolution (1760–1789)

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