Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Leonidas Smolents, Smolenits or Smolenskis was an Austrian military officer of Greek origin, who after 1830 settled in the newly independent Kingdom of Greece and became a general …
Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (born 1806)
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…
Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (born 1829)
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish was a British Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Cavendish was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in…
Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1836)
Frederick Maitland Innes was Premier of Tasmania from 4 November 1872 to 4 August 1873.
Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (born 1816)
Reuben Chapman was an American lawyer and politician. He served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 to 1847, and as the 13th governor of Alabama from 1847 to 1…
Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. H…
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (born 1807)
Christian Wilberg was a German painter.
Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (born 1839)
Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC., served as the first vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Born in Saint-Pier…
Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (born 1804)
François Jouffroy was a French sculptor.
François Jouffroy, French sculptor (born 1806)
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
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)
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)
Amunda Bartholda Wilhelmine Mariane Kolderup was a Norwegian opera singer.
Amunda Kolderup, Norwegian opera singer (born 1846)
Arthur de Gobineau, Count de Gobineau was a French writer and diplomat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing th…
Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (born 1816)
William Forster was a pastoral squatter, colonial British politician, Premier of New South Wales from 27 October 1859 to 9 March 1860, and poet.
William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (born 1818)
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
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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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