Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Galle…
Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (died 1961)
Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer.
Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (died 1947)
Frank Charles Laubach, from Benton, Pennsylvania was a Congregational Christian missionary educated at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and a mystic known as "Th…
Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (died 1970)
George Alfred Leon Sarton was a Belgian-American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. H…
George Sarton, Belgian-American historian of science (died 1956)
Théodore Eugène Pilette was a Belgian racing driver and businessman. He started racing in 1903.
Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (died 1921)
Herbert Voldemar Johanson was an Estonian architect.
Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (died 1964)
Sudhamoy Pramanick was an Indian advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the Tili Samaj, a societal benefit organisation. He was a social activist - member of the…
Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian activist and politician (died 1974)
Martin Klein was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the middleweight class, becoming the first Olympic…
Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1947)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the Ger…
Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (died 1920)
William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thoma…
Maxwell Perkins, American editor (died 1947)
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revi…
Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (born 1824)
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902…
Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (born 1809)
Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content o…
Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (born 1810)
Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott was an Austrian composer and organist. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruck…
Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (born 1858)
Victor Massé was a French composer.
Victor Massé, French composer (born 1822)
Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have c…
Paul Morphy, American chess player (born 1837)
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim …
Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)
Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter was a German-Austrian geologist. In 1857 he was appointed geologist on the Austrian Novara expedition to New Zealand, collecting…
Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (born 1829)
Kiến Phúc was a child emperor of Vietnam, who reigned for less than 8 months, 1883–1884, as the 7th emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty.
Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (born 1869)
Sir Robert Richard Torrens,, also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became pro…
Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (born 1814)
Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger was an Austrian zoologist.
Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (born 1802)
Moses Fleetwood Walker, sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher credited with being the first black man to play major league baseball. A nat…
Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his
William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West, Cody began perfor…
Buffalo Bill's first Buffalo Bill's Wild West opens in Omaha, Nebraska
Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed…
Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia