Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC, nicknamed "Bake", served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instru…
Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (died 1942)
Gustavo Romeo Vincenti was a Maltese architect and developer. Born into a wealthy and business-oriented family in Valletta and Floriana, he was able to purchase land and design and…
Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (died 1974)
Evadne Price, probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith.
Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)
Pieter Henricus van der Hoog, also known after converting to Islam as Mohammed Abdul-Ali, was a Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist. Born in The Hague, Van der Hoog…
Pieter van der Hoog, Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (died 1957)
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.
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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)
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the south…
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (born 1822)
John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist, chemist, and Confederate States Army officer who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early …
John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (born 1831)
James Squire Farnell was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.
James Farnell, Australian politician, eighth Premier of New South Wales (born 1825)
Dr. Ágoston Trefort was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education from 1872 until his death. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Science…
Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (born 1817)
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement o…
Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (born 1822)
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Viipuri and was of …
Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (born 1835)
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
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive a…
Bertha Benz made the first long-distance automobile trip, driving 106 km (66 mi) from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany,…
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of …
One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", was played at a press conference in…
89 New Zealand Native football team
89 New Zealand Native football team
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
Dr. Esperanto's International Language, commonly referred to as Unua Libro, is an 1887 book by L. L. Zamenhof, in which he first introduced and described the constructed language E…
Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.