Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Poundmaker, also known as pîhtokahânapiwiyin, was a Plains Cree chief known as a peacemaker and defender of his people, the Poundmaker Cree Nation. His name denotes his special cra…
Poundmaker, Canadian tribal chief (born 1797)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr., known by his pen name Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.
Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (born 1823)
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered t…
Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1811)
Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (born 1814)
Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early…
Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (born 1810)
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik.
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (born 1843)
Ramakrishna, also called Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay, was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious…
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (born 1836)
Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. was an American inventor, best known for his mortise lock and stone-crushing machine, the latter of which earned him a place into the National Inventors Hall…
Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (born 1795)
Zinovios Zafirios I. Valvis was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. Valvis was born in 1800 in Missolonghi. He first studied theology at the Theological School of Halk…
Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1800)
The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union moveme…
During a labor rally in Chicago, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of eight police officers and four member
The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House…
The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, in the only time that a U
The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House…
The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom (wedding depicted) took place in the White House, in the only time th
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, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted, killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Vo
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his othe…
French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won
A sharpshooter is one who is highly proficient at firing firearms or other projectile weapons accurately. Military units composed of sharpshooters were important factors in 19th-ce…
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West
The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-…
Governor of New York David B
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift…
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
Reciprocity, in 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian politics, meant free trade, the removal of protective tariffs on all natural resources between Canada and the United States. R…
The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act of Japan. Article 2 defines an invention as "the highly advanced creation o…
Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
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 opens for business
The Cree are a North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations macro-communities. There are nume…
Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-W
The North-West Rebellion was an armed rebellion of Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising of Cree and Assiniboine mostly in the District of Saskatchewan, against the Can…
North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an e
The Cree are a North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations macro-communities. There are nume…
In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Polic
The Treaty of Tianjin, signed on June 9, 1885, officially ended the Sino-French War. The "unequal treaty", or colonial treaty, restated in greater detail the main provisions of the…
Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of pres