Historical Events In 1880
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Jan 01 Building of Panama Canal, begins 


Jan 01 Edie Martin, London England, actress (Titfield Thunderbolt). 


Jan 02 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer 


Jan 04 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies. 


Jan 05 Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer 


Jan 06 Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm. 


Jan 06 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm. 


Jan 06 Tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin). 


Jan 08 [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60. 


Jan 09 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days. 


Jan 10 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause). 


Jan 11 Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer 


Jan 17 Mack Sennett, American director is born 


Jan 17 Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops). 


Jan 18 Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis) 


Jan 21 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis. 


Jan 21 Jeffree and Pendray install Victoria's*(British Columbia) inaugural business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory 


Jan 21 The inaugural US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN. 


Jan 24 Elisabeth Achelis, creator (World Calendar). 


Jan 25 Francis George Scott, composer. 


Jan 26 Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general is born. 


Jan 26 Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, general (WW II), he did return!. 


Jan 27 Thomas A. Edison receives a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb. 


Jan 27 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 


Jan 28 Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (Engld wicket-keeper before and after WW I). 


Jan 29 W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick) 


Jan 31 An Ice Railway is opened between Longueuil and Montreal by the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. A railway track was placed on large timbers laid on the ice of the St. Lawrence River. During the summer months the QMO and O used a car ferry. An ice railway was laid each winter until 1883 


Feb 01 Antonio Guarnieri, composer 


Feb 01 The inaugural edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published. 


Feb 02 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton 


Feb 02 SS Strathleven arrives in London with inaugural Australian frozen mutton. 


Feb 03 Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42) 


Feb 04 Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC. 


Feb 08 Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter). 


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