Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work under t…
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (born 1804)
Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure was a French statesman who served 3 non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of France.
Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (born 1798)
Hoxhë Hasan Tahsini or simply Hoxha Tahsim was an Albanian alim, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He was the first rector of Istanbul University and one of the founders o…
Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1811)
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was a Finland-Swedish philosopher, journalist and statesman, and one of the leading figures of Fennoman nationalism in 19th-century Finland. A central expone…
Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (born 1806)
Georg Hermann Nicolai was a German architect and educator, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden from 1850 until his death.
Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (born 1812)
John Clifford Pemberton was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Seminole Wars and the Mexican–American War. He resigned his commission and …
John C. Pemberton, American general (born 1814)
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…
William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid, American gunfighter and outlaw (born 1859 or 1860)
James Felix Bridger was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th cent…
Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (born 1804)
Spotted Tail was a Sichangu Lakota tribal chief. Famed as a great warrior since his youth, warring on Ute, Pawnee and Absaroke (“Crow”), and having taken a leading part in the Grat…
Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (born 1823)
James Springer White, also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the husband of Ellen G. White. In 1849, he started the first Sabbatarian A…
James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1821)
A pair of decorated ceilings in the main Central Hall and smaller North Hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, were unveiled at the building's opening in 1…
The painted ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London, were unveiled when the building opened its doors to the publ
The French conquest of Tunisia occurred in two phases in 1881: the first consisting of the invasion and securing of the country before the signing of a treaty of protection, and th…
Under threat of invasion, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, Bey of Tunis, signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French prote
The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route from the …
The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the US
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and C…
U.S. president James A. Garfield (pictured) was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac…
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…
While on the run from a death sentence, American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sherriff Pat Garrett in…
French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or Québécois heritage, ethnicity and/…
Franco-American children as young as seven years old began striking against Cabot Mill in Brunswick, Maine, shutting…
The Mussel Slough Tragedy was a shootout over disputed land titles between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It took place on May 11, 1880, on a farm located 5.6 mil…
Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivi…
War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del De
"O Canada" is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony…
First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français
Bushrangers were armed robbers and outlaws who resided in the Australian bush between the 1780s and the early 20th century. The original use of the term dates back to the early yea…
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan
Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is a tropical island located in the central pa…
France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie"
Abdur Rahman Khan Barakzai, also known by his epithet as the Iron Emir, was Emir of Afghanistan from 11 August 1880 until his death on 1 October 1901. He is known for uniting the c…
Abdur Rahman is proclaimed emir after having been accepted as ruler by the British.
Samuel Earl Crawford, nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Crawford batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and wei…
Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (died 1968)
Michael Fokine was a Russian choreographer and dancer. He is considered the founder of modern ballet.
Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1942)