1880 34773 224690168 2008-07-09T23:59:33Z Koplimek 2360147 /* July - December */ Wyndham Standing 1880-1963 {{year nav|1880}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} Year '''1880''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]]). <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> == Events of 1880 == === January - March === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[February 2]] - The first electric [[streetlight]] is installed in [[Wabash, Indiana]]. *[[March 31]] - [[Wabash, Indiana]] becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. === April - June === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[April 18]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]] defeats [[Benjamin Disraeli]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1880|United Kingdom general election]] to become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] for the second time.[http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/PrimeMinisters.htm] * [[May 13]] - In [[Menlo Park, New Jersey]], [[Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his [[electric railway]]. *[[June 29]] - [[France]] annexes [[Tahiti]]. === October - December === <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[October]] - The "[[Blizzard]] of 1880" begins in [[North America]]. * [[October 6]] - The [[University of Southern California]] opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty. * [[October 15]] - [[Mexico|Mexican]] soldiers kill [[Victorio]], one of the greatest [[Apache Tribe|Apache]] military strategists. * [[October 28]] - The first stone is laid for the [[Clarkson Memorial]] in [[Wisbech]]. * [[November]] - [[James Garfield]] defeats [[Winfield S. Hancock]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1880|U.S. presidential election]]. * [[November 4]] - The first [[cash register]] is patented by [[James Ritty|James]] and John Ritty of [[Dayton, Ohio]]. * [[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 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 (journal)|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. ==Ongoing== * [[Aceh War]] (1873-1904) * [[War of the Pacific]] (1879-1884) ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 13}} ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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]]) **[[John L. Lewis]], American labor union leader (d. [[1969]]) * [[February 16]] - [[Frank Burke (baseball)|Frank Burke]], American baseball player (d. [[1946]]) * [[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]], [[United States|American]] [[Eugenics|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 Fame]]r (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, British civil servant, industrialist and economist (d. [[1941]]) * [[June 27]] - [[Helen Keller]], American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. [[1968]]) ===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 5]] - [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist (d. [[1940]]) * [[July 12]] - [[Tod Browning]], American motion picture director, pioneered horror films (d. [[1962]]) * [[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 (actor)|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 23]] - [[Wyndham Standing]], British actor of stage & film (d. [[1963]]) * [[August 26]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (d. [[1918]]) * [[August 29]] - [[Marie-Louise Meilleur]], verified as longest-lived Canadian ever (d. [[1998]]) * [[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]] **[[Benjamin (Fedchenkov)|Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov)]], [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] [[missionary]] and writer, [[Exarch]] of [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Church]] in North America (d. [[1961]]) **[[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]], verified as longest-lived American ever (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 (d. [[1930]]) * [[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]]) * [[November 25]] - [[Elsie J. Oxenham]], British children's novelist (d. [[1960]]) * [[December 1]] - [[Joseph Trumpeldor]], Russian Zionist (d. [[1920]]) * [[December 4]] - [[Garfield Wood]], American motorboat racer (d. [[1971]]) * [[December 10]] - [[Jessie Aspinall]], Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] (d. [[1953]]) * [[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]]) **[[Reginald Farrer]], English botanist (d. [[1920]]) **[[Li Shutong]], Chinese artist and art teacher (d. [[1942]]) ==Deaths== ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 4]] **<!--January 4-->[[Anselm Feuerbach]], German painter (b. [[1829]]) **<!--January 4-->[[Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet]], French statesman (b. [[1801]]) * [[January 8]] - [[Joshua A. Norton]], self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. [[1811]]) * [[January 14]] - [[Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1829]]) * [[January 12]] - [[Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn]], author (b. [[1805]]) * [[January 20]] - [[Captain Moonlite]], Australian bushranger (b. [[1842]]) (hanged) * [[January 31]] - [[Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac]], French politician (b. [[1806]]) * [[April 23]] - [[Raden Saleh]], Indonesian painter (b. [[1807]]) * [[March 14]] - [[Pagan Min]], King of Ava (b. [[1811]]) * [[March 31]] - [[Henryk Wieniawski]], Polish composer (b. [[1835]]) * [[May 4]] - [[Edward Clark (governor)|Edward Clark]], Confederate Governor of Texas (b. [[1815]]) * [[May 8]] - [[Gustave Flaubert]], French novelist (b. [[1821]]) * [[May 20]] - [[Károly Alexy]], Hungarian sculptor (b. [[1816]]) * [[June 8]] - [[Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)]], Empress Consort of [[Czar]] [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]] of Russia (b. [[1824]]) * [[June 28]] - [[Texas Jack Omohundro]], American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. [[1846]]) ===July - December=== <!-- DEATHS --> * [[July 7]] - [[Lydia Maria 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. [[1848]]) * [[August 17]] - [[Ole Bull]], Norwegian violinist (b. [[1810]]) * [[August 24]] - [[Chief Ouray]], Native American leader (b. c. 1833) * [[October]] - [[Victorio]], Apache chief * [[October 4]] - [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-born composer (b. [[1819]]) * [[November 11]] - [[Ned Kelly]], Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. [[1855]]) * [[November 28]] - [[Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos]], ([[Portuguese people|Portuguese]]) [[Archbishop]] of [[Goa]] (b. [[1837]]) * [[December 22]] - [[George Eliot]], English writer (b. 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