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1880 (
MDCCCLXXX ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1880th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 880th year of the
2nd millennium , the 80th year of the
19th century , and the 1st year of the
1880s decade. As of the start of 1880, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
April – The government of
Cape Colony sets a deadline for the Basuto people to surrender their weapons; non-compliance leads to the
Basuto Gun War .
April 18 –
1880 United Kingdom general election :
William Ewart Gladstone defeats
Benjamin Disraeli , to become
Prime Minister for the second time.
[2]
April 19 – The
Prime Minister of Sweden ,
Louis De Geer , resigns over the defeat of a defense reform bill in the country's
Riksdag ; he is succeeded by Count
Arvid Posse (1880–1883).
April 27 – The
Royal University of Ireland is founded by charter, allowing the
Catholic University of Ireland to re-form as
University College Dublin .
May 2 – After having her lights installed by Edison's personnel, the
SS Columbia is lit up for the first time at the foot of
Wall Street , in New York City.
May 13 – In
Menlo Park, New Jersey ,
Thomas Edison performs the first test of his
electric railway .
June – The
SS Columbia sets off on her maiden voyage around
Cape Horn to
Portland, Oregon , carrying 13 locomotives and 200 railcars.
June 1 –
Tinius Olsen is awarded a United States Patent, for the Little Giant Testing Machine.
June 28 –
Australian police capture bank robber
Ned Kelly , after a gun battle at
Glenrowan, Victoria .
June 29 – France annexes
Tahiti .
July–September
July 14 –
Dorchester Penitentiary opens in Canada.
July 22 –
Abdur Rahman Khan becomes
Emir of Afghanistan .
July 27 –
Second Anglo-Afghan War –
Battle of Maiwand : Afghan troops under Ayub Khan defeat British and Indian forces, under
Brigadier General George Burrows .
August 14 –
Cologne Cathedral is completed, after construction began in
1248 , 632 years earlier.
August 24 – The
SS Columbia completes her maiden voyage, arriving without incident in
Portland, Oregon , after a stopover in
San Francisco .
August 26 – Competing circus owners
P. T. Barnum and
James A. Bailey sign a contract in
Bridgeport, Connecticut , to create the
Barnum & Bailey Circus . In 1907, the circus will merge forces with another competitor, the
Ringling Brothers Circus .
[3]
September 1 –
Second Anglo-Afghan War –
Battle of Kandahar :
General Frederick Roberts , commanding British forces, defeats the Afghan troops of
Mohammad Ayub Khan , bringing an end to the war.
[4]
October–December
Date unknown
Births
January–February
King Vajiravudh
Douglas MacArthur
Franz Marc
January 1 –
Vajiravudh , Rama VI, King of Siam (d.
1925 )
January 2 –
Louis Charles Breguet , French aircraft designer, builder and aviation pioneer (d.
1955 )
January 3 –
Francis Browne , Irish Jesuit priest, famous for his last photos of the
RMS Titanic (d.
1960 )
January 6 –
Tom Mix , American Western film actor (d.
1940 )
January 10
Manuel Azaña , 2nd President of the Spanish Second Republic, 55th Prime Minister of Spain (d.
1940 )
Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach), Swiss-born clown (d.
1959 )
January 11 –
Rudolph Palm , Curaçao-born composer (d.
1950 )
January 17 –
Mack Sennett , Canadian-born comedy film director, producer (d.
1960 )
January 18 –
Paul Ehrenfest , Austrian-Dutch physicist (d.
1933 )
January 19 –
Henryk Minkiewicz , Polish general and politician (d.
1940 )
January 26 –
Douglas MacArthur , American general (d.
1964 )
January 29 –
W. C. Fields , American actor, comedian (d.
1946 )
February 5 –
Gabriel Voisin , French aviation pioneer (d.
1973 )
February 8 –
Franz Marc , German artist (d.
1916 )
February 12 –
George Preca , Maltese saint (d.
1962 )
February 14 –
Frederick J. Horne , American four-star admiral (d.
1959 )
February 19 –
Álvaro Obregón , 39th
President of Mexico (d.
1928 )
February 21 –
Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (d.
1952 )
February 22
February 26 –
Lionel Logue , Australian speech and language therapist (d.
1953 )
March–April
Kuniaki Koiso
March 1 –
Lytton Strachey , English critic and biographer (d.
1932 )
[6]
March 15 –
Montagu Love , English actor (d.
1943 )
March 17 –
Lawrence Oates , British army officer and Antarctic explorer (d.
1912 )
March 18 –
Kalle Hakala , Finnish politician (d.
1947 )
[7]
March 21 –
Broncho Billy Anderson , American actor (d.
1971 )
March 22 –
Kuniaki Koiso ,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1950 )
March 23 –
Heikki Ritavuori , Finnish Minister of the Interior (d.
1922 )
March 27 –
Ruth Hanna McCormick , American politician, activist and publisher (d.
1944 )
March 28 –
Louis Wolheim , American character actor (d.
1931 )
March 30 –
Seán O'Casey , Irish writer (d.
1964 )
[8]
April 15 –
Max Wertheimer , Austrian-born psychologist, father of Gestalt Theory (d.
1943 )
April 18 –
Sam Crawford , American
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1968 )
May–June
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Helen Keller
May 6
May 14
May 21 –
Tudor Arghezi , Romanian writer (d.
1967 )
May 25 –
Alf Common , English footballer (d.
1946 )
May 29 –
Oswald Spengler , German philosopher (d.
1936 )
June 6 –
W. T. Cosgrave , Irish politician (d.
1965 )
June 15 –
Osami Nagano , Japanese admiral (d.
1947 )
June 17 –
Carl Van Vechten , American writer and photographer (d.
1964 )
[9]
June 24 –
João Cândido Felisberto , Brazilian sailor (d.
1969 )
June 27 –
Helen Keller , American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, writer and lecturer (d.
1968 )
[10]
June 29 –
Ludwig Beck , German general, Chief of the General Staff (d.
1944 )
July–August
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Sir Earle Page
Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
July 5 –
Jan Kubelík , Czech violinist (d.
1940 )
July 12 –
Tod Browning , American motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d.
1962 )
July 15 –
Alessandro Guidoni , Italian air force general (d.
1928 )
July 21 –
Milan Rastislav Štefánik , Slovak General, politician and astronomer (d.
1919 )
July 24 –
Ernest Bloch , Swiss-born American composer (d.
1959 )
July 28 –
Volodymyr Vynnychenko , 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine (d.
1951 )
August 4 –
Werner von Fritsch , German general (d.
1939 )
August 8 –
Sir Earle Page , 11th
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1961 )
August 12 –
Christy Mathewson , American baseball player (d.
1925 )
August 19 –
Jean Patou , French fashion designer (d.
1936 )
August 22 –
George Herriman , American cartoonist (d.
1944 )
August 26 –
Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet and dramatist (d.
1918 )
[11]
August 29 –
Marie-Louise Meilleur , Canadian supercentenarian, oldest Canadian ever (d.
1998 )
August 30 –
Nikolai Astrup , Norwegian painter (d.
1928 )
August 31 – Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d.
1962 )
September–October
Kullervo Manner
September 12 –
H. L. Mencken , American journalist (d.
1956 )
[12]
September 14 –
Archie Hahn , American athlete (d.
1955 )
September 15 –
Chujiro Hayashi , Japanese Reiki master (d.
1940 )
September 16 –
Alfred Noyes , English poet (d.
1958 )
September 20 –
Ugo Cavallero , Italian field marshal (d.
1943 )
September 22 –
Christabel Pankhurst , English suffragette (d.
1958 )
September 23 –
John Boyd Orr , Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1971 )
September 24 –
Sarah Knauss , American supercentenarian, oldest American ever, last surviving person born in 1880 (d.
1999 )
September 27 –
Pier Ruggero Piccio , Italian World War I fighter ace, air force general (d.
1965 )
September 29 –
Liberato Pinto , 78th Prime Minister of Portugal (d.
1949 )
October 2 –
Nicolae M. Condiescu , Romanian novelist and general (d.
1939 )
October 3 –
Ganga Singh , Maharaja of Bikaner (d.
1943 )
October 4 –
Damon Runyon , American writer (d.
1946 )
[13]
October 7 –
Paul Hausser , German general (d.
1972 )
October 12
October 17 –
Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Russian Zionist philosopher, intellectual (d.
1940 )
October 23
October 24 –
Antonina De Angelis , Italian
Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d.
1962 )
November–December
Alfred Wegener
George Marshall
November 1 –
Alfred Wegener , German scientist, meteorologist (d.
1930 )
November 2 –
John Foulds , English classical music composer (d.
1939 )
November 3 –
Avra Theodoropoulou , Greek suffragist (d.
1963 )
November 5 –
Richard Oswald , Austrian film director (d.
1963 )
November 6 –
Robert Musil , Austrian novelist (d.
1942 )
November 9 –
Giles Gilbert Scott , British architect (d.
1960 )
November 10 –
Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (d.
1959 )
November 12 –
Harold Rainsford Stark , American admiral (d.
1972 )
November 22 –
Charles Forbes , British admiral (d.
1960 )
November 25
November 29 –
Sara Allgood , Irish-American actress (d.
1950 )
December 1 –
Joseph Trumpeldor , Russian Zionist (d.
1920 )
December 3 –
Fedor von Bock , German field marshal (d.
1945 )
December 11 –
Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer (d.
1951 )
December 31 –
George C. Marshall ,
United States Secretary of State , recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1959 )
Deaths
January–June
Ana Neri
Eberhard Anheuser
January 4
January 8 –
Joshua A. Norton , self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b.
1811 )
January 12 –
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur , wife of
Chester A. Arthur (b.
1837 )
January 14 –
Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b.
1829 )
January 20 –
Captain Moonlite , Australian bushranger (hanged) (b.
1842 )
January 31 –
Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac , French politician (b.
1806 )
February 18 –
Nikolay Zinin , Russian organic chemist (b.
1812 )
February 29 – Sir
James Milne Wilson , Premier of Tasmania (b.
1812 )
March 14 –
Pagan Min , King of Ava (b.
1811 )
March 31 –
Henryk Wieniawski , Polish composer (b.
1835 )
April 23 –
Raden Saleh , Indonesian painter (b.
1807 )
April 27 –
Joseph Vinoy , French general (b.
1803 )
May 2
Eberhard Anheuser , German-American brewer, co-founder of
Anheuser-Busch (b.
1806 )
[15]
May 4 –
Edward Clark , Confederate Governor of Texas (b.
1815 )
May 8 –
Gustave Flaubert , French novelist (b.
1821 )
[16]
May 20 –
Ana Néri , Brazilian nurse (b.
1814 )
June 8 –
Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) , Empress Consort of
Czar
Alexander II of Russia (b.
1824 )
June 28 –
Texas Jack Omohundro , American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b.
1846 )
July–December
Jacques Offenbach
July 9 –
Paul Broca , French physician and anthropologist (b.
1824 )
July 17 –
Tomasz Chołodecki , Polish political activist (b.
1813 )
July 21 –
Hiram Walden , American politician (b.
1800 )
August 9 –
William Bigler , American politician (b.
1814 )
August 15 –
Adelaide Neilson , English actress (b.
1848 )
August 16 –
Herschel Vespasian Johnson , American politician (b.
1812 )
August 17 –
Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist (b.
1810 )
August 24 –
Chief Ouray , Native American leader (b. c.
1833 )
September 21 –
Manuel Montt , 5th President of Chile (b.
1809 )
September 25 –
John Tarleton , British admiral (b.
1811 )
October 5 –
Jacques Offenbach , German-born French composer (b.
1819 )
October 14 –
Victorio , Chiricahua Apache chief (b. c.
1825 )
October 22 –
Alphonse Pénaud , French aviation pioneer (b.
1850 )
October 23 –
Bettino Ricasoli , Italian statesman (b.
1809 )
November 11
November 13 –
August Karl von Goeben , Prussian general (b.
1816 )
November 23 –
Sir Redmond Barry , Australian judge, sentenced Ned Kelly to death (b.
1813 )
November 28 –
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos , (
Portuguese )
Archbishop of
Goa (b.
1837 )
November 30 –
Jeanette Threlfall , English hymnwriter (b.
1821 )
December 7 –
Maria Giuseppa Rossello , Italian
Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b.
1811 )
December 20 –
Gaspar Tochman , Polish-American soldier (b.
1797 )
December 22 –
George Eliot , English writer (b.
1819 )
[17]
Date unknown
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Further reading and year books
1880 Annual Cyclopedia (1881) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1880; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 756 pp