Explore 352 historical events from 1880–1889.
Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
Adriaan Roland Holst was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for the Nobel…
Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer (died 1976)
Zachariah Davis Wheat, nicknamed "Buck", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left fielder from 1909 to 1927, most notably as…
Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer (died 1972)
Louis Edmond Durey was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers.
Louis Durey, French composer (died 1979)
William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, best remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Toward the end of his career, he also …
Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (died 1969)
Kaarel Eenpalu was an Estonian journalist, politician and head of state, who served as 7th Prime Minister of Estonia.
Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia (died 1942)
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot was the first wife of American-British poet T. S. Eliot, whom she married in 1915, less than three months after their introduction by mutual friends, when…
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English author and educator (died 1947)
James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was the…
Jim Thorpe, American decathlete, football player, and coach (died 1953)
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with Karol Olszewski, he was the first scientist in the world to liquify nitrogen in 1883.
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (born 1845)
Ephraim George Squier, usually cited as E. G. Squier, was an American archaeologist, history writer, painter and newspaper editor.
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Abraham Joseph Ash was an Orthodox rabbi and Talmudist.
Abraham Joseph Ash, American rabbi (born c
Giacomo Zanella was an Italian poet.
Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (born 1820)
North Borneo was a British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The territory of North Borneo was originally established by concessions of the Sultanates of B…
North Borneo was established as a British protectorate
The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial …
The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch
The Prussian Secret Police was the secret police of Prussia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on o
The Academia Peruana de la Lengua is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Peru. It was founded in Lima on May 5, 1887. Its first elected pr…
The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic fun…
Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)
Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1…
Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (died 1978)
Denys George Finch-Hatton MC was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen, a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical …
Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (died 1931)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic (died 1936)
Warren Kenneth Wood was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Warren Wood, American golfer (died 1926)
Robert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert…
Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist (died 1973)
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham,, was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He then …
Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (died 1983)
Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers and dance teachers who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th century. They are credite…
Vernon Castle, English-American dancer (died 1918)