1880

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 - 1880 - 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885

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.
• March 10 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
• May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 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.

Year in topic

• 1880 in literature
• 1880 in science
• 1880 in music

Births

• January 6 - Tom Mix, actor († 1940)
• January 17 - Mack Sennett, director, producer († 1960)
• January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, general († 1964)
• January 29 - W.C. Fields, actor († 1946)
• January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States († 1945)
• February 8 - Franz Marc, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter († 1916)
• February 12 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader († 1969)
• February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer († 1952)
• February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician († 1956)
• March 10 - Broncho Billy Anderson, actor († 1971)
• March 13 - Frank Thieß, writer († 1977)
• March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist († 1964)
• April 13 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood († 1955)
• May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter († 1938)
• May 25 - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist († 1967)
• May 29 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher (Decline of the West) († 1936)
• July 5 - Jan Kubelík, violinist († 1940)
• August 22 - George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) († 1944)
• August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands († 1962)
• November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities) († 1942)
• June 27 - Helen Keller, socialist, pacifist, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind († 1968)
• September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette († 1958)

Deaths

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

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