Explore 457 historical events from 1880–1889.
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He originated the pioneering theory that the universe is expanding, governed by a set of equ…
Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (died 1925)
Peter Stoner was a Christian writer and Chairman of the departments of mathematics and astronomy at Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science division, Westmont Col…
Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (died 1980)
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German army general and military theorist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panz…
Heinz Guderian, German general (died 1954)
Arthur Massey "Matt" Berry was a pioneering Canadian bush pilot.
Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (died 1970)
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with Karol Olszewski, he was the first scientist in the world to liquify nitrogen in 1883.
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (born 1845)
Ephraim George Squier, usually cited as E. G. Squier, was an American archaeologist, history writer, painter and newspaper editor.
E
Abraham Joseph Ash was an Orthodox rabbi and Talmudist.
Abraham Joseph Ash, American rabbi (born c
Giacomo Zanella was an Italian poet.
Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (born 1820)
Frederick III, or Friedrich III, was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days from 9 March 1888 until his death in June that year, during the Year of the Three Emperors.
Frederick III, German Emperor (born 1831)
Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in t…
Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (born 1842)
North Borneo was a British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The territory of North Borneo was originally established by concessions of the Sultanates of B…
North Borneo was established as a British protectorate
The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial …
The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch
The Prussian Secret Police was the secret police of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on o
The Academia Peruana de la Lengua is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Peru. It was founded in Lima on May 5, 1887. Its first elected pr…
The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic fun…
Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)
Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing info…
Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calcul
The Reinsurance Treaty was a diplomatic agreement between the German Empire and the Russian Empire that was in effect from 1887 to 1890. The existence of the agreement was not know…
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
Denys George Finch-Hatton MC was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen, a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical …
Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (died 1931)
Warren Kenneth Wood was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Warren Wood, American golfer (died 1926)
Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert…
Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist (died 1973)
Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers and dance teachers who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th century. They are credite…
Vernon Castle, English-American dancer (died 1918)
Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1…
Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (died 1978)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic (died 1936)
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham,, was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He then …
Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (died 1983)