Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Harry Bartholomew Hooper was an American professional baseball right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Hooper batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Hooper was…
Harry Hooper, American baseball player (died 1974)
August Johannes Kippasto was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)
István Kühár was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, politician, and writer in Hungary, and later in Yugoslavia.
István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)
Mohamed Sherif Pasha GCSI was an Egyptian statesman. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt three times during his career. His first term was between 7 April 1879 and 18 August 1879.…
Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1826)
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister. He was the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) and one of its most influential th…
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Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death but …
Thomas Francis Meagher, Leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Commander of the Irish Brigade in the US Civil…
Robert A. Clay Allison, also known as Clay Allison was an American cattle rancher, cattle broker, and sometimes gunfighter of the American Old West. He fought for the Confederacy i…
Clay Allison, American rancher (born 1841)
Benjamin Holladay was an American transportation businessman responsible for creating the Overland Stage to California during the height of the 1849 California Gold Rush. He create…
Ben Holladay, American businessman (born 1819)
John Taylor was an English-born American religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. He is the first an…
John Taylor, American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1808)
Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Italy for several stretches between 1876 and 1887, and was leader of the Historical Left p…
Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1813)
Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Jose…
Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1808)
Webster Paulson was an English civil engineer who is known for his work in Malta in the late 19th century.
Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (born 1837)
Jules Laforgue was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry …
Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (born 1860)
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada. The Crown, along with two chambers, form the bicameral legislature.
The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park (pictured) in Alberta as the
L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917) was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.
L. L. Zamenhof (pictured) published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed…
The eight-hour day movement was a social movement that appeared in various countries to regulate the length of a working day. The goal was preventing excesses and abuses of working…
Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what bec
The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land-clearing fires to the west o…
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia
Michális Dórizas was a Greek athlete who competed in throwing events at the 1906, 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the javelin throw in 1908 and a bronze in …
Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American football player and javelin thrower (died 1957)
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place…
Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place…
Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor ral
John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist, chemist, and Confederate States Army officer who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early …
Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist in Commonwealth English, is a healthcare professional who is knowledgeable about preparation, mechanism of action, clinical usage and legislat…
The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal
Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consist…
Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces
Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann was a German communist politician, revolutionary, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.
Ernst Thälmann, German politician (died 1944)