What Happened in July 1680

Historical Events

  • Jul 8 The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts

Famous Deaths

  • Jul 10 Louis MorĂ©ri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
  • Jul 26 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind) and courtier of King Charles II, dies of a sexually transmitted infection at 33
  • Jul 30 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)