Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
Events and Trends About 300 000 Swedes emigrate to the United States. First Boer War First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. First steel frame construction "sky-scrapers The New Imperialism Science and technology James-Lange theory of emotion Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach World Leaders Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary) Emperor Wilhelm I (Germany) Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Germany) King Umberto I (Italy) Pope Leo XIII Emperor Alexander II (Russia) Emperor Alexander III (Russia) Queen Victoria (United Kingdom) Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom) President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States) President Chester A. Arthur (United States) President Grover Cleveland (United States)\n
