Historical Events
- Mar 22 Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas
- Jul 8 The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Aug 10 Tewa medicine man, Popé, leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican Province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
- Aug 21 Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé in the New Mexican Province, from Spanish
- Sep 26 Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
- Nov 14 Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)
- Dec 4 Hen in Rome lays a uniquely patterned egg, later believed to have predicted the arrival of the Kirch/Newton "Great Comet of 1680"
- Dec 15 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
- Dec 31 Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
Famous People Born in 1680
- Jan 3 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker
- Feb 14 John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor, born in Penshurst Place, Kent (d. 1737)
- Feb 25 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, Bohemian composer and patron (Gluck)
- Mar 20 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)
- Apr 9 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author, born in Tours, France (d. 1754)
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