1880

Years:
1877 1878 1879 – 1880 – 1881 1882 1883

Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries:
18th century – 19th century – 20th century

1880 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Rail transport - Science - South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January – April

January 1 – Construction of the Panama Canal begins
January 9 – The Great Gale of 1880 strikes areas in Oregon and Washington.
February 1 – First edition of The Stage published
February 2 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana
February 13 – Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect.
February 17 – Bomb explodes in Winter Palace dining room but the tzar Alexander II survives because he was late for dinner
March 10 – Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
April 22 ? Benjamin Disraeli resigns.

May – August

May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 29 – France annexes Tahiti
July 1 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.
July 16 – First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada – Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.

September – December

October – terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".
October 15 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
November – James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election
November 11 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.
November 22 – Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
December 30 – The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.

Unknown date

Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
Completion of Cologne cathedral.
Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.
Cocaine isolated
The British recognise Abdur Rahman Khan as amir of Afghanistan

Births

January 6 – Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
January 17 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)
January 26 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
January 28 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970).
January 29 – W.C. Fields, English actor (d. 1946)
February 5 – Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
February 8 – Franz Marc, German artist (d. 1916)
February 12 – John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969)
February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
February 22 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
March 1 – Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
March 10 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
March 13 – Frank Thieß, writer (d. 1977)
March 30 – Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)
April 13 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)
April 18 – Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
May 14 – B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954)
May 25 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
May 29 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
June 6 – W.T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
June 27 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)
August 6 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
August 8 – Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
August 10 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918)
August 31 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
September 14 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
September 22 – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1958)
November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
December 11 – - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951).
December 31 – George C. Marshall, American general (d.1959)
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, American equestrian (d. 1925)
Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)
Abd al-Aziz IV, Sultan of Morocco
Gar Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)

Deaths

January 8 – Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)
March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
May 4 – Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
July 7 – Lydia Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)
August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
November 11 – Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged)
December 22 – George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)

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