Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
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…
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…
The Vulcan Street Plant was the first Edison hydroelectric central station. The plant was built on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, and put into operation on September 30, 188…
The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private…
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 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 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
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
Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Fahal was a Sudanese religious and political leader. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi and led a war against Egyptian rule in Sudan, which culmina…
In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam
A telephone call, phone call, voice call, or simply a call, is the use of a connection over a telephone network between two parties for audio communication. To start a call, the ca…
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine,…
The Cardwell Reforms were a series of reforms of the British Army undertaken by Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell between 1868 and 1874 with the support of Liberal prime m…
General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental ill…
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his…
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.
The revival of the Hebrew language took place in Europe and the Southern Levant toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which the language's usage cha…
First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
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…
American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
The 1881 Atlantic hurricane season featured a tropical cyclone that remains one of the deadliest in the history of the United States. Seven tropical storms are known to have develo…
The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the intersection of Central, Western, and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the nort…
In the Swiss state of Glarus, a rockslide buries parts of the village of Elm, destroying 83 buildings and killing 115…
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A…
U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and o…
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Harry Jheopart Capehart Sr. was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Capehart served as a member of the West Virginia House of Del…
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