Explore 766 historical events from 1880–1889.
Friedrich Dessauer was a German physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.
Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)
Augusta Fox Bronner was an American psychologist and criminologist, best known for her work in juvenile psychology. She co-directed the first child guidance clinic, and her researc…
Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (died 1966)
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially…
Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
William Burges was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisa…
William Burges, English architect and designer (born 1827)
Ludwig Samson Heinrich Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen was a Bavarian general.
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (born 1815)
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon was a French sculptor and photographer.
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (born 1818)
Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman o…
Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (born 1805)
Samuel Palmer Hon.RE was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary…
Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (born 1805)
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps officer and, later, an anti-war advocate. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–A…
Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1940)
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a centr…
Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1804)
Jacob Bernays was a German philologist and philosophical writer.
Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (born 1824)
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré was a French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called le Littré.
Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (born 1801)
Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian vio…
Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (born 1820)
Joseph Škoda was a Czech-born Austrian physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School o…
Joseph Škoda, Czech medical doctor and dermatologist (born 1805)
Franjo Krežma, also known as Franz Krezma in German-speaking countries, was a Croatian violinist and composer.
Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist and composer (born 1862)
Sir Josiah Mason was an English industrialist, engaged in dip pen manufacture and other trades, and a philanthropist. He founded Mason Science College in 1875, which later became t…
Josiah Mason, English businessman and philanthropist (born 1795)
Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work under t…
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (born 1804)
Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure was a French statesman who served 3 non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of France.
Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (born 1798)
Hoxhë Hasan Tahsini or simply Hoxha Tahsim was an Albanian alim, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He was the first rector of Istanbul University and one of the founders o…
Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1811)
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was a Finland-Swedish philosopher, journalist and statesman, and one of the leading figures of Fennoman nationalism in 19th-century Finland. A central expone…
Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (born 1806)
Georg Hermann Nicolai was a German architect and educator, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden from 1850 until his death.
Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (born 1812)
John Clifford Pemberton was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Seminole Wars and the Mexican–American War. He resigned his commission and …
John C. Pemberton, American general (born 1814)
Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders. He was solely responsib…
William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid, American gunfighter and outlaw (born 1859 or 1860)
James Felix Bridger was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th cent…
Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (born 1804)