In the year 1680, the first documented tornado in America takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Jul 8), Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe, New Mexico from the Spanish (Aug 21), the Whigs, opposing catholicism, burn effigies of the Pope in London (Nov 14), the city of Karlskrona is founded in Sweden, the first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau - and all these fine people were born:
1680-xxxx Gundill Trabeen** mother of Petter Carlsson Hällström/married to Carl Esbjörnsson Skotte - Helsingborg, Swedish Empire (1711/30-31)
1680-0103 Johann Baptist Zimmermann* German painter - Gaispoint, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1758/78)
1680-0108 Sebastiano Conca* Italian painter - Gaeta, Kingdom of Naples (1764/84)
1680-0123 Joseph Ames* bibliographer/ antiquary/author - Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (1759/70)
1680-0214 John Sidney* soldier/ landowner/6th Earl of Leicester - Penshurst Place, Kent, England (1737/57)
1680-0223 Jean-Baptiste de Bienville* French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana - Montreal, New France (1767/87)
1680-0409 Philippe Néricault Destouches* playwright - Tours, Kingdom of France (1754/74)
1680-0423 Anna Canalis di Cumiana* morganatic wife of Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia - Palazzo Canais, Turin (1769/88)
1680-0505 Giuseppe Porsile* composer/singing teacher - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1750/70)
1680-0621 Olof Estenberg* archivist/royal secretary - Stockholm, Sweden (1752/72)
1680-0622 Ebenezer Erskine* minister/religious activist - Dryburgh, Scotland (1754/73)
1680-0712 Abigail Williams* (b Rogers) one of the initial accusers in the Salem witch trials/cousin of Betty Parris (1697/37)
1680-0922 Barthold Heinrich Brockes* German poet - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1747/66)
1680-0929 Christian Friedrich Hunold* German writer - Wandersleben, Duchy of Saxe-Gotha, Holy Roman Empire (1721/40)
1680-1011 John Abernethy Sr* minister - Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland (1740)
1680-1013 Catherine Opalíska* Queen consort of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - Poznán, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1747/66)
1680-1111 Nicolaus Seeber* German piano maker/composer/teacher - Haina, Thüringen, Holy Roman Empire (1739/58)
Updated 30.3.2023-1
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