Explore 766 historical events from 1880–1889.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command,…
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (died 1945)
Hella Maria Wuolijoki, known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer, playwright, parliamentarian, businessperson and farmer. She is best known as a dr…
Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (died 1954)
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize…
Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat (died 1978)
Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube i…
Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (died 1976)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work range fr…
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (died 1965)
Edward McClellan Cummins was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the gold medal. He finished 25th in thi…
Edward Cummins, American golfer (died 1926)
Lars Mauritz Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.
Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (died 1965)
Ernst Georg May was a German architect and city planner.
Ernst May, German architect and urban planner (died 1970)
Charles François Frédéric de Montholon-Sémonville was a French senator, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1864 to 1866.
Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes h…
Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (born 1830)
John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manu…
John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (born 1804)
Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival…
Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (born 1795)
Ludwig II, also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King, was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of …
Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (born 1845)
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrov…
Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (born 1823)
Sir Alexander Stuart was Premier of New South Wales from 5 January 1883 to 7 October 1885.
Alexander Stuart, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of New South Wales (born 1824)
Jean-Louis Beaudry was a Canadian entrepreneur and politician. Beaudry served as mayor of Montreal three times, from 1862 to 1866, from 1877 to 1879, and from 1881 to 1885 for a to…
Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (born 1809)
Poundmaker, also known as pîhtokahânapiwiyin, was a Plains Cree chief known as a peacemaker and defender of his people, the Poundmaker Cree Nation. His name denotes his special cra…
Poundmaker, Canadian tribal chief (born 1797)
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr., known by his pen name Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.
Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (born 1823)
The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union moveme…
During a labor rally in Chicago, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of eight police officers and four member
The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House…
The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, in the only time that a U
The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House…
The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom (wedding depicted) took place in the White House, in the only time th
Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consist…
Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted, killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Vo
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his othe…
French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift…
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor