Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
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)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on …
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentinian journalist and politician, 7th President of Argentina (born 1811)
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
89 New Zealand Native football team
89 New Zealand Native football team
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…
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
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
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.
On 5 September 1887, a fire broke out in the backstage area of the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England, during the production of The Romany Rye. The fire caused panic throughout the t…
A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the UK's deadliest ever building fire.
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)
The Rocky Mountains Park Act was enacted on June 23, 1887, by the Parliament of Canada, establishing Banff National Park which was then known as "Rocky Mountains Park". The act was…
The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
Kalākaua, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891. Succeeding Lunalilo, he was elected to the …
David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of…
Granny was the affectionate name eventually given to a beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina, which in 1828 was taken from a rocky shore at North Berwick in Scotland by an amateur na…
Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman…
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)
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)