[caption id=“attachment_4180” align=“alignright” width=“410”] Battle of Springfield, New Jersey in 1780[/caption]

In the year of 1780, the legislature of Pennsylvania votes to approve the Act for the Gradual Emancipation of Slaves (Mar 1), Charleston in South Carolina is taken by British forces (May 12), the Continental Army defeats the British in New Jersey (Jun 23), French soldiers arrive in Newport, Rhode Island to reinforce the colonists in the American Revolutionary War (Jul 11), the French King Louis XVI abolishes the use of torture in extracting confessions (Aug 24), the American War of Independence (1775–1783) goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1780-0111 Erik Gabriel Melartin* scholar/Archbishop of Turku - Kärkölä, Sweden-Finland (1847/67) 1780-0112 Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette* theologian/ biblical scholar - Ulla, Thuringia (1849/69) 1780-0113 Pierre Jean Robiquet* chemist - Rennes, Brittany, Kingdom of France (1840/60) 1780-0201 1780-0202 Johannes van den Bosch* officer/politician - Herwijnen, Dutch Republic (1844/63) 1780-0210 1780-0214 Johann Friedrich Naumann* German scientist/engraver/editor - Ziebigk (1857/77) 1780-0218 Alexey Venetsianov* painter - Moscow, Russian Empire (1847/67) 1780-0220 1780-0224 Erkki Matinpoika Latva** father of Iisakki Erkinpoika Latva - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (1840/60) 1780-0228 1780-0306 Lucy Barnes* writer - Jaffrey, New Hampshire (1809/29) 1780-0424 Henrik Snellman* bishop/professor of theology - Kokkola, Sweden-Finland (1835/55) 1780-0429 Charles Nodier* author/librarian - Besançon, France (1844/63) 1780-0529 Henri Braconnot* chemist/pharmacist - Commercy, France (1855/74) 1780-0601 Carl von Clausewitz* military strategist - Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1831/51) 1780-0704 Sofia Hjärne* (b Rosenborg) baroness/writer/ salon holder active in Helsinki - Sweden (1860/80) 1780-0715 Emilie Petersen* Swedish philanthropist - Hamburg, Germany, Holy Roman Empire (1859/78) 1780-0829 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres* painter - Montauban, France (1867/86) 1780-0925 Jason Fairbanks* alleged murderer - Dedham, Massachusetts (1801/20) 1780-1001 Robert Smirke* architect - London, England (1867/86) 1780-1010 1780-1020 1780-1028 Ernst Anschütz* organist/poet/ composer - Suhl, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1861/81) 1780-1028 Maria Hansdotter Marcken, Långholm** (b Perthållar) mother of Anders Hansinpoika Långholm - Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1844/63) 1780-1030 1780-1116 James FitzGibbon* the British lieutenant in the War of 1812 whom Laura Secord warned of an impending American attack - Glin, County Limerick, Ireland (1863/83) 1780-1217 Daniel Ekwall* (b Tarckén) vicar/broadline writer - Humppila, Sweden-Finland (1835/54) 1780-1226 Mary Somerville* science writer/polymath - Jedburgh, Scotland (1872/91) Updated 1.4.2023-5 Search for another year here