Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Stefan Dunjov was a Banat Bulgarian military figure and revolutionary known for participating in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification (Risorgimento), a…
Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (born 1815)
Charles III was Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 20 June 1856 to his death. He was the founder of the famous casino in Monte Carlo, as his name in Monegasque and Itali…
Charles III, Prince of Monaco (born 1818)
The Treaty of Wuchale was a treaty signed between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. The signing parties were King Menelik II of Shewa, acting as Emperor of Ethiopia, a…
The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another wa
The Wham Paymaster robbery was an armed robbery of a United States Army paymaster and his escort on May 11, 1889, in the Arizona Territory. Major Joseph W. Wham was transporting a …
Bandits attacked a U
Bangui is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic. It was established as a French outpost in 1889 and named after its location on the northern bank of the Uban…
Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo
Hyde Park Township is a former civil township in Cook County, Illinois, United States that existed as a separate municipality from 1861 until 1889 when it was annexed into the city…
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the U
The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889. It mostly comprised player…
The New Zealand Native football team, predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the…
The Lei Áurea, officially Law No. 3,353 of 13 May 1888, is the law that abolished slavery in Brazil. It was signed by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846–1921), an opponent o…
With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply syst…
Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating cu
The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake occurred on 5 June measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, and shook the upper Río de la Plata at 3:20 UTC-3. The epicentre was located 15 kilometre…
The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place
George Edward Gouraud was an American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor who later became famous for introducing the new Edison Phonograph cylinder audio recording technolog…
George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the olde
An adding machine is a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. Consequently, the earliest adding machines were often designed to read in p…
The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly Nichols, was the first canonical victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have murdered and mutilated …
Mary Ann Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims, is murdered.
Peral was the first successful submarine powered entirely by electric batteries and the first fully military-capable submarine in history. It was built by the Spanish engineer and …
Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
The White Rajahs of Sarawak were a hereditary monarchy of the Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak as a sovereign state, located on the northwest coast of the is…
The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a typically conical volcano built up by many alternating layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes…
The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive a…
Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the…
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a …
George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
In late 19th and early 20th centuries, sheep farming expanded across the Patagonian Steppe making the southern regions of Argentina and Chile one of the world's foremost sheep farm…
The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of…
Annie Chapman was the second canonical victim of the unidentified serial killer known as "Jack the Ripper", who murdered and mutilated at least five women in the Whitechapel and Sp…
In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
William James Minter, was a footballer, trainer, manager and assistant secretary at Tottenham Hotspur. He scored 101 goals for Tottenham, and was for a time the top scorer for the …
Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (died 1940)
Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock, known as Herms Niel, was a German composer of military songs and marches.
Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (died 1954)
Georges-Philias Vanier was a Canadian military officer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th governor general of Canada from 1959 to 1967, the first Quebecker and second …
Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (died 1967)
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the…
In England, the first six Football League matches are played.