Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
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)
Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well a…
Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1824)
Solomon Lewis Spink was an American politician. A Republican, he was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Dakota Territory.
Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (born 1831)
Orson Pratt Sr. was an American religious leader and mathematician who was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Christ. After the succession cri…
Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (born 1811)
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisone…
Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (born 1842)
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…
James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (born 1831)
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.
The Basuto Gun War, also known as the Basutoland Rebellion, was a conflict between the Basuto and the British Cape Colony. It lasted from 13 September 1880 to 29 April 1881 and end…
The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.
The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is published twice weekly by Cornell University students and hired employees. Founde…
The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
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)
The Second Anglo-Afghan War was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of t…
Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle…