Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing info…
Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calcul
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic fun…
Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)
Denys George Finch-Hatton MC was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen, a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical …
Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (died 1931)
Warren Kenneth Wood was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Warren Wood, American golfer (died 1926)
Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert…
Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist (died 1973)
The Reinsurance Treaty was a diplomatic agreement between the German Empire and the Russian Empire that was in effect from 1887 to 1890. The existence of the agreement was not know…
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
The Rocky Mountains Park Act was enacted on June 23, 1887, by the Parliament of Canada, establishing Banff National Park which was then known as "Rocky Mountains Park". The act was…
The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
Kalākaua, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891. Succeeding Lunalilo, he was elected to the …
David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of…
Granny was the affectionate name eventually given to a beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina, which in 1828 was taken from a rocky shore at North Berwick in Scotland by an amateur na…
Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman…
Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers and dance teachers who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th century. They are credite…
Vernon Castle, English-American dancer (died 1918)
Marika Kotopouli was a Greek stage actress during the first half of the 20th century.
Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (died 1954)
Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".
Andrew Dasburg, French-American painter (died 1979)
Mervyn Sharp Bennion was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attac…
Mervyn S
Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson was an Australian educator and educational psychologist who worked with intellectually disabled children. She was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Edu…
Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (died 1951)
Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1…
Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (died 1978)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic (died 1936)
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham,, was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He then …
Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (died 1983)
Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1…
Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (died 1951)
Ants Kurvits or Hans Kurvits was an Estonian military commander, reaching rank of major general. He participated in the Estonian War of Independence and later became the founder an…
Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (died 1943)
Maria Lacerda de Moura was a Brazilian teacher, writer and anarcha-feminist. The daughter of spiritist and anti-clerical parents, she grew up in the city of Barbacena, in the inter…
Maria Lacerda de Moura, Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (died 1945)
Ion Jalea was a Romanian sculptor, monumentalist, teacher, and member of the Romanian Academy.
Ion Jalea, Romanian soldier and sculptor (died 1983)
Thoralf Albert Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic, set theory, and number theory.
Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1963)