Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle …
George S. Rentz, American commander (died 1942)
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG was an Australian politician who served as the 33rd premier of Victoria from 1935 to 1943 and from 1943 to 1945 and as the third deputy premier of V…
Albert Dunstan, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Victoria (died 1950)
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer who founded the aircraft company de Havilland. The company produced the Mosquito, which has been c…
Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (died 1965)
Leon Kessling "Red" Ames was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1903 to 1919 for the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, St. Lou…
Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (died 1936)
Albert Bloch was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter, a group of early 20th-century European modernists.
Albert Bloch, American painter and academic (died 1961)
Anne Crawford Acheson was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and international…
Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (died 1962)
Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and o…
Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1965)
Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth …
Marion Bauer, American composer and critic (died 1955)
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter was a British-American classical archaeologist and art historian. She was a prominent figure and an authority in her field.
Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian (died 1972)
Désiré Alfred Mérchez was a male French swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lille and died in Nice.
Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (died 1968)
Raymonde de Laroche was a French pilot who became the world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910. She is thought to be the first woman to pilot a plane.
Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (died 1919)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 190…
Volin, Russia anarchist intellectual (died 1945)
Seán Thomas O'Kelly, originally John T. O'Kelly, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the president of Ireland from June 1945 to June 1959. He also served as deputy pr…
Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland (died 1966)
James Franck was a German–American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon …
James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
Sam Hardy was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Sam Hardy, English footballer (died 1966)
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)
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)
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)
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)