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 art 1880 in literature 1880 in music 1880 in science 1880 in sports 1880 in Canada List of state leaders in 1880 List of religious leaders in 1880

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 1 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins
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 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.
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 hanged 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.

Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
Completion of Cologne cathedral.
Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.
Cocaine isolated

Births

January 6 - Tom Mix, actor (d. 1940)
January 17 - Mack Sennett, director, producer (d. 1960)
January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, general (d. 1964)
January 29 - W.C. Fields, actor (d. 1946)
January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States (d. 1945)
February 8 - Franz Marc, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter (d. 1916)
February 12 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969)
February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952)
February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician (d. 1956)
March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
March 10 - Broncho Billy Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
March 13 - Frank Thieß, writer (d. 1977)
March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (d. 1964)
April 13 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (d. 1955)
April 18 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938)
May 14 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher (d. 1954)
May 25 - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (d. 1967)
May 29 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher (Decline of the West) (d. 1936)
July 5 - Jan Kubelík, violinist (d. 1940)
August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
August 8 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, Dallas businessman, philanthropist and mayor (d. 1964)
August 22 - George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (d. 1944)
August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
September 14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (d. 1942)
June 27 - Helen Keller, socialist, pacifist, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1958)
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, horseman, member of the Vanderbilt family (+ 1925)
Joseph Trumpeldor, early Zionist activist († 1920)

Deaths

January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America
May 4 - Edward Clark, governor of Texas (b. 1815)
May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist
July 7 - Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)
November 11 - Bushranger Ned Kelly hanged
October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, composer