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1980 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.
- Deaths in 1980
The following is a list of notable deaths in 1980. Entries...
- 1980 (Disambiguation)
1980 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian...
- United Kingdom
2 April – 1980 St Pauls riot in Bristol. 3 April – Education...
- MGM Grand Fire
The MGM Grand fire occurred on Friday, November 21, 1980, at...
- Deaths in 1980
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began January 1, 1980, and ended December 31, 1989. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards ...
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. William T. Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge, he was largely self-educated. He was head librarian at the Royal Horticultural Society 's Lindley Library in London from 1933 to 1952, and then moved to the Natural History Museum where he was a scientific ...
Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860; no relation to Chambers's Cyclopaedia of the 18th century) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870) Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), by Inglis Palgrave. Pears Cyclopaedia (1897), originally named Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia. The People's Select Cyclopedia (1897), by Charles Nisbett.
AD 80 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Domitianus (or, less frequently, year 833 Ab urbe condita ).
The 1980s was a decade that began on January 1, 1980 and ended on December 31, 1989. It is distinct from the decade known as the '''199st decade''' which began on January 1, 1981 and ended on December 31, 1990. This decade (group of ten years) is sometimes called the "Greed decade" in English speaking countries.
