1880

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –   1890s   1900s   1910s
Years:	1877 1878 1879 – 1880 – 1881 1882 1883

Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1880

January - March

• February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

April - June

• April 18 - William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.
• May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• June 29 - France annexes Tahiti.

July - September

• July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.
• July 16 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe is the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada.
• July 22 - The British recognize Abdur Rahman Khan as Emir of Afghanistan.
• August 30 - First complete railroad trip made from Houston to New Orleans on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.
• September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the world takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• September 16 - "Black Bart" ( Charles Bolles) robs the stage from Roseburg, Oregon to Yreka, California. This took place in Jackson County, Oregon. It is the farthest north Bart is known to have robbed.

October - December

• October - Terrible winter storm in North America, the " Blizzard of 1880".
• October 6 - The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.
• October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
• October 28 - The first stone was laid for the Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech.
• November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 4 - The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
• November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
• November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
• December 20 - Action at Bronkhorstspruit, the first major action of the First Boer War.
• December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.

Undated

• Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
• Completion of Cologne cathedral.
• Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.
• Cocaine isolated.
• Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards).
• Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union established.

Ongoing

• Aceh War (1873-1904)
• War of the Pacific (1879-1884)

Births

1880 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1880 MDCCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2633
Armenian calendar	1329 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6630
Bahá'í calendar	36–37
Bengali calendar	1287
Berber calendar	2830
British Regnal year	43 Vict. 1 – 44 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2424
Burmese calendar	1242
Byzantine calendar	7388–7389
Chinese calendar	己卯年十一月二十日 (4516/4576-11-20) — to — 庚辰年十二月初一日 (4517/4577-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1596–1597
Ethiopian calendar	1872–1873
Hebrew calendar	5640–5641
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1936–1937
- Shaka Samvat	1802–1803
- Kali Yuga	4981–4982
Holocene calendar	11880
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	880–881
Iranian calendar	1258–1259
Islamic calendar	1297–1298
Japanese calendar	Meiji 13 (明治13年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4213
Minguo calendar	32 before ROC 民前32年
Thai solar calendar	2423

January - June

• January 6 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
• January 17 - Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)
• January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
• January 28 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
• January 29 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• February 5 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
• February 8 - Franz Marc, German artist (d. 1916)
• February 12
  • George Preca, 1st Maltese Saint (d. 1962)
  • John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969)
• February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
• February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
• March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
• March 4 - Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
• March 10 - Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
• March 11 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
• March 22 - Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1950)
• March 23 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (d. 1922)
• March 30 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)
• April 13 - Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)
• April 15 - Max Wertheimer, Father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943)
• April 18 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
• May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
• May 14 - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954)
• May 21 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
• May 25
  • Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
  • Alf Common, English footballer (d. 1946)
• May 29 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
• June 3 - Didier Bonvitesse, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
• June 6 - W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
• June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
• June 21 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist and economist (d. 1941)
• June 27 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)

July - December

• July 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
• July 21 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. 1919).
• July 24
  • Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)
  • Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
• August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
• August 8 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
• August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
• August 22 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918)
• August 29 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian Woman, notable for living 117 years (d. 1998)
• August 30 - Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (d.1928)
• August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
• September 12 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (d. 1956)
• September 14
  • Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (d. 1961)
  • Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
• September 16 - Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
• September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1958)
• September 23 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
• September 24 - Sarah Knauss, American woman, notable for living 119 years (d. 1999)
• October 23 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
• November 1
  • Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (d. 1954)
  • Alfred Wegener, German scientist and meteoroligist (d. 1930)
• November 2 - John Foulds, British classical music composer (d. 1939)
• November 5 - Richard Oswald, Austrian film director (d. 1963)
• November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
• November 10 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)
• November 25 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (d. 1960)
• December 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)
• December 4 - Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)
• December 10 - Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (d. 1953)
• December 11 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
• December 24 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938)
• December 31 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
• date unknown
  • William J. Simmons, Founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (d. 1945)
  • Reginald Farrer, English botanist (d. 1920)
  • Li Shutong, Chinese artist and art teacher (d. 1942)

Deaths

January - June

• January 4
  • Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (b. 1829)
  • Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, French statesman (b. 1801)
• January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)
• January 14 - Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1829)
• January 12 - Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, author (b. 1805)
• January 20 - Captain Moonlite, Australian bushranger (b. 1842) (hanged)
• January 31 - Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, French politician (b. 1806)
• April 23 - Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter (b. 1807)
• March 14 - Pagan Min, King of Ava (b. 1811)
• March 31 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• May 4 - Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
• May 20 - Károly Alexy, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1816)
• June 8 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1824)
• June 28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)

July - December

• July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)
• July 17 - Tomasz Chołodecki, Polish political activist (b. 1813)
• July 21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
• August 15 - Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1847)
• August 17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
• August 24 - Chief Ouray, Native American leader (b. c. 1833)
• October - Victorio, Apache chief
• October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
• November 11 - Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
• November 28 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, ( Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
• December 22 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)