Explore 457 historical events from 1880–1889.
Nils Andreas Økland was a Norwegian Esperantist and teacher in Stord Municipality, Norway. He spent some years in his youth on the island of Utsira, where his father was a school t…
Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher (died 1969)
Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Irania…
Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian educator and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (died 1967)
Adolphus Frederick VI was the last reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1918)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers o…
Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1971)
Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov, was a Bulgarian communist politician and revolutionary who served as General Secretary of the Central Committe…
Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1949)
Daniel Edward "Ned" Sawyer was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (died 1937)
George Jennings was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets. These were first showcased at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and such was t…
George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the flush toilet (born 1810)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of …
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (born 1803)
Leonidas Smolents, Smolenits or Smolenskis was an Austrian military officer of Greek origin, who after 1830 settled in the newly independent Kingdom of Greece and became a general …
Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (born 1806)
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (born 1809)
Thomas Henry Burke was an Irish civil servant who served as Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before being assassinated during the Phoenix Park Murders o…
Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (born 1829)
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish was a British Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Cavendish was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in…
Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1836)
Frederick Maitland Innes was Premier of Tasmania from 4 November 1872 to 4 August 1873.
Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (born 1816)
Reuben Chapman was an American lawyer and politician. He served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 to 1847, and as the 13th governor of Alabama from 1847 to 1…
Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. H…
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (born 1807)
Christian Wilberg was a German painter.
Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (born 1839)
Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC., served as the first vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Born in Saint-Pier…
Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (born 1804)
Shewa, formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa, is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire. The modern Ethiopian…
The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa wit
Thomas Henry Burke was an Irish civil servant who served as Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before being assassinated during the Phoenix Park Murders o…
Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Iri
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under…
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SS Virago was a passenger and cargo ship operated by Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. She was built in 1871 in Hull by Earle's Shipbuilding and operated initially on routes between Britain…
The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew
Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. It was named after nearby Fort Dodg…
In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders. He was solely responsib…
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico
Ottoman Tunisia was a semi-autonomous territory of the Ottoman Empire. It existed from the 16th to the 19th century and was located roughly in present-day Tunisia.
In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate