Explore 766 historical events from 1880–1889.
Louise Freeland Jenkins was an American astronomer who compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun, as well as editing the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright St…
Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (died 1970)
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movemen…
Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978)
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian princ…
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (died 1960)
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanis…
Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (died 1985)
Zygmunt Janiszewski was a Polish mathematician.
Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1920)
Scipio Slataper was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian liter…
Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (died 1915)
Percy William Kilbride was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.
Percy Kilbride, American actor (died 1964)
Frederik "Frits" Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is know…
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration c…
Enno Lolling, German physician (died 1945)
Kirk Bryan was an American geologist on the faculty of Harvard University from 1925 until his death in 1950.
Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (died 1950)
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discove…
Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Arthur John Richardson was an Australian Test cricketer who played nine Tests matches for Australia.
Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (died 1973)
Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in February 1914. He died in France as a result of injuries sustained on the Western Front d…
Reginald Hands, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1918)
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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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company e…
Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (died 1959)
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)
Frederick III, or Friedrich III, was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days from 9 March 1888 until his death in June that year, during the Year of the Three Emperors.
Frederick III, German Emperor (born 1831)
Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in t…
Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (born 1842)
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the south…
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (born 1822)
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