Explore 457 historical events from 1880–1889.
Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an op…
Otto Klemperer, German composer and conductor (died 1973)
Sophie was Princess of Albania from 7 March to 3 September 1914 as the wife of Prince Wilhelm. In 1906, she married Wilhelm, second son of the Prince of Wied. When her husband beca…
Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (died 1936)
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist, anti-fascist politician and an opposition leader, who was the secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924. Born in …
Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924)
Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (died 1957)
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, born Wilhelm Grünthal was an Estonian poet, translator, linguist and folklorist.
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (died 1942)
Arturo Rawson was the provisional President of Argentina from June 4, 1943, to June 7, 1943.
Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina (died 1952)
Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of …
Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957)
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski was a Polish physician, general, and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and as the 28th Prime Minister of Poland before and at the ou…
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1962)
Robert Stanley Richards was an Australian politician. He served as premier of South Australia for two months in 1933, leading the Parliamentary Labor faction of the Australian Labo…
Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (died 1967)
Henry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-ficti…
Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969)
Erich Roman Ludvig Jacoby was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. From 1905 to 1907 he studied at the Leibniz University of Hannover, in 1913 he graduated from the Riga…
Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (died 1941)
Andrzej Gawroński was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lwów University,, the author of the first Polish handbook on Sanskrit, fo…
Andrzej Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic (died 1927)
Terézia Zakoucs was a Hungarian Slovene author.
Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (born 1817)
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Con…
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (born 1809)
Peter William Barlow was an English civil engineer, particularly associated with railways, bridges, the design of tunnels and the development of tunnelling techniques. In 1864 he p…
Peter W
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1802)
Ignace Bourget was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876.
Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (born 1799)
Matías Ramos Mejía was an Argentine colonel. He joined the 1828 coup of Juan Lavalle against Manuel Dorrego, and the 1839 rebellion of the Freemen of the South. He took part in the…
Matías Ramos Mejía, Argentinian colonel (born 1810)
Wilhelm Camphausen was a German painter who specialised in history painting and military art.
Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter and academic (born 1818)
The Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) was a standing committee of the British Colonial Office between 1885 and 1908. During the second half of the 19th century British Army troops w…
The first meeting of the Colonial Defence Committee, a standing committee of the British Colonial Office, was held to di
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street "canyon". Built in 1…
The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business
Humanum genus is a papal encyclical promulgated on 20 April 1884 by Pope Leo XIII.
Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers Plym and Tamar, about 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Exeter …
The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
LaMarcus Adna Thompson was an American inventor and businessman most famous for developing a variety of gravity rides and roller coasters.
The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island