Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
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)
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)
Spotted Tail was a Sichangu Lakota tribal chief. Famed as a great warrior since his youth, warring on Ute, Pawnee and Absaroke (“Crow”), and having taken a leading part in the Grat…
Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (born 1823)
James Springer White, also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the husband of Ellen G. White. In 1849, he started the first Sabbatarian A…
James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1821)
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisone…
Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (born 1842)
Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well a…
Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1824)
The French conquest of Tunisia occurred in two phases in 1881: the first consisting of the invasion and securing of the country before the signing of a treaty of protection, and th…
Under threat of invasion, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, Bey of Tunis, signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French prote
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and C…
James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (born 1831)
A pair of decorated ceilings in the main Central Hall and smaller North Hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, were unveiled at the building's opening in 1…
The painted ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London, were unveiled when the building opened its doors to the publ
The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route from the …
The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the US