1880


Year '1880' ('MDCCCLXXX') was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents
Events of 1880
January - March
April - June
July - September
October - December
Undated
Births
January - June
July - December
Deaths
January - June
July - December

Events of 1880


January - March


February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
April - June


April 18 - William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.

May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

June 29 - France annexes Tahiti.
July - September


July 1 - First performance of ''O Canada'', the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.

July 16 - First woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.

July 22 - The British recognise Abdur Rahman Khan as emir of Afghanistan.

August 30 - First complete railroad trip made from Houston to New Orleans on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.

September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the world takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia.

September 16 - Black Bart robbed the stage from Roseburg to Yreka, California. This took place in Jackson County, Oregon. It was the farthest north Bart is known to have robbed.
October - December


★ October - Terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".

October 6 - The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.

October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.

October 28 - The first stone was laid for the Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech.

November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election.

November 4 - The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.

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 20 - Action at Bronkhorstspruit, the first major action of the First Boer War.

December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.
Undated


★ Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.

★ Completion of Cologne cathedral.

★ Founding of ''Science'' by Thomas Edison.

Cocaine isolated.

Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards).

Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union established.

Births


January - June


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, American actor (d. 1946)

February 5 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)

February 8 - Franz Marc, German artist (d. 1916)

February 12 - George Preca, 1st Maltese Saint (d. 1962)

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 4 - Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)

March 10 - Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)

March 11 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)

March 22 - Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1950)

March 23 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (d. 1922)

March 30 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)

April 13 - Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)

April 15 - Max Wertheimer, Father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943)

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 21 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)

May 25


Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)


Alf Common, English footballer (d. 1946)

May 29 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)

June 3 - Didier Bonvitesse, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 1945)

June 6 - W.T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)

June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)

June 21 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)

June 27 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
July - December


July 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)

July 21 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. 1919).

July 24


Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)


Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)

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 30 - Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (d.1928)

August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)

September 12 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (d. 1956)

September 14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)

September 16 - Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)

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 woman, notable for living 119 years (d. 1999)

October 23 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)

November 1


Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (d. 1954)


Alfred Wegener, German scientist and meteoroligist

November 2 - John Foulds, British classical music composer (d. 1939)

November 5 - Richard Oswald, Austrian film director (d. 1963)

November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)

November 10 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)

December 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)

December 4 - Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)

December 11 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)

December 24 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938)

December 31 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)

★ ''date unknown''


William J. Simmons, Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (d. 1945)


D. Leigh Colvin, American temperance movement leader and Prohibition Party candidate for presidency in 1936 (d. ?)


Reginald John Farrer, English botanist (d. 1920)


Li Shutong, Chinese artist and art teacher (d. 1942)
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Deaths


January - June


January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)

January 12 - Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, author (b. 1805)

April 23 - Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter (b. 1807)

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)

June 8 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1824)
July - December


July 7 - Lydia Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)

July 17 - Tomasz Chołodecki, Polish political activist (b. 1813)

July 21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)

August 15 - Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1847)

August 17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)

★ October - Victorio, Apache chief

October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)

November 11 - Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged)

November 28 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)

December 22 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)

★ unknown - Károly Alexy, a sculptor.
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