Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Richard William "Rube" Marquard was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and early 1920s. He achieved his greatest success with the New York Giants…
Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (died 1980)
Spring Dell Byington was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was an MGM contract player who appeare…
Spring Byington, American actress (died 1971)
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency …
David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)
Eugene Burton Ely was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.
Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot (died 1911)
Erik Henrik Fredrik Bergman was a Swedish parish minister of the Lutheran Church and the father of diplomat Dag Bergman, novelist Margareta Bergman, and film director Ingmar Bergma…
Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (died 1970)
Leo Grattan Carroll was an English actor. In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest an…
Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (died 1972)
Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual…
Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (died 1964)
Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford was a British archaeologist who specialised in the archaeology of prehistoric Britain and Sudan. A keen proponent of aerial archaeology, he spent most …
O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (died 1957)
Sir (Albert) Noel Campbell Macklin was an innovative British car maker and boat designer. He founded Eric-Campbell in 1919, Silver Hawk in 1920, Invicta in 1925, and Railton in 193…
Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer (died 1946)
Zoe Byrd Akins was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.
Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered t…
Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1811)
Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (born 1814)
Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early…
Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (born 1810)
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik.
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (born 1843)