1880

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1877 1878 1879 - 1880 - 1881 1882 1883 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1880 in art
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\n1880 in music
\n1880 in science
\n1880 in sports
\n1880 in Canada\n----\nList of state leaders in 1880
\nList of religious leaders in 1880\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins\n* February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana\n* February 13 - Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect.\n* February 17 - Bomb explodes in Winter Palace dining room but the tzar Alexander II survives because he was late for dinner\n* March 10 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.\n* April 22 – Benjamin Disraeli resigns\n* May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.\n* June 29 - France annexes Tahiti\n* July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.\n* July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.\n* October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".\n* October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.\n* November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election\n* November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.\n* November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.\n* December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president. \n*Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.\n*Completion of Cologne cathedral.\n*Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.\n* Cocaine isolated

Births

\n* January 6 - Tom Mix, actor (d. 1940)\n* January 17 - Mack Sennett, director, producer (d. 1960)\n* January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, general (d. 1964)\n* January 29 - W.C. Fields, actor (d. 1946)\n* January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States (d. 1945)\n* February 8 - Franz Marc, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter (d. 1916)\n* February 12 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969)\n* February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952)\n* February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician (d. 1956)\n* March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932)\n* March 10 - Broncho Billy Anderson, actor (d. 1971)\n* March 13 - Frank Thieß, writer (d. 1977)\n* March 30 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (d. 1964)\n* April 13 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (d. 1955)\n* April 18 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)\n* May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938)\n* May 14 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher (d. 1954)\n* May 25 - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (d. 1967)\n* May 29 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher (Decline of the West) (d. 1936)\n* July 5 - Jan Kubelík, violinist (d. 1940)\n* August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)\n* August 8 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)\n* August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, Dallas businessman, philanthropist and mayor (d. 1964)\n* August 22 - George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (d. 1944)\n* August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)\n* September 14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)\n* November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (d. 1942)\n* June 27 - Helen Keller, socialist, pacifist, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)\n* September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1958)\n*Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, horseman, member of the Vanderbilt family (+ 1925)

Deaths

\n* January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America\n* May 4 - Edward Clark, governor of Texas (b. 1815)\n* May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist\n* July 7 - Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)\n* November 11 - Bushranger Ned Kelly hanged\n* October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, composer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n