Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Alberto Henschel was a German-born Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernam…
Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (born 1827)
Joseph Brackett Jr. was an American songwriter, author, and elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers. The most famous song…
Joseph Brackett, American composer and author (born 1797)
Ignacio Carrera Pinto (1848–1882) was a Chilean soldier and Captain of the 4th Company of the "Chacabuco" 6th Line Battalion who was killed in action at the Battle of La Concepción…
Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean captain (born 1848)
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau…
Charles J
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.
Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861–1865 (born 1818)
John William Bean was a British criminal and mental patient. He was most known for attempting in 1842 to assassinate Queen Victoria with a gun loaded with paper and tobacco. Born a…
John William Bean, English criminal and failed regicide (born 1824)
James Whyte was a Scottish-born Australian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Tasmania, from 20 January 1863 to 24 November 1866. Before moving to Tasmania, Whyte was a …
James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (born 1820)
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country. He is the author of Estonian national epic Kalev…
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (born 1803)
Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics. Many mat…
Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (born 1809)
Thomas Henry Burke was an Irish civil servant who served as Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office for many years before being assassinated during the Phoenix Park Murders o…
Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Iri
Shewa, formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa, is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire. The modern Ethiopian…
The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa wit
Robert Buckle was an English footballer who, as a schoolboy, founded the Hotspur Football Club in 1882, which later became Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
A group of London schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club to continue to play sports during the…
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under…
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SS Virago was a passenger and cargo ship operated by Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. She was built in 1871 in Hull by Earle's Shipbuilding and operated initially on routes between Britain…
The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew
Boers are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795…
Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later flag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as…
Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. It was named after nearby Fort Dodg…
In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
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…
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico
Carol I or Charles I of Romania, nicknamed the King of Independence ; was the monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince (Domnitor) from 1866 to 1881, and …
Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom
Ottoman Tunisia was a semi-autonomous territory of the Ottoman Empire. It existed from the 16th to the 19th century and was located roughly in present-day Tunisia.
In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
The American National Red Cross, sometimes referred to as ANRC, is an American nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster…
The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Dansville, New York
The Austro-Serbian Convention of 1881 was a secret bilateral treaty that was signed in Belgrade on 28 June 1881 by Gabriel Freiherr Herbert-Rathkeal on behalf of Austria-Hungary an…
The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the…
In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Argentina and Chile was signed on 23 July 1881 in Buenos Aires by Bernardo de Irigoyen, for Argentina, and Francisco de Borja Echeverría, for Ch…
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
USS Jeannette was a naval exploration vessel which, commanded by George W. De Long, undertook the Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881 to the Arctic. After being trapped in the ice an…
The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack