Historical Events In 1880

Jan 01   Building of Panama Canal, begins in the year 1880.  

Jan 01   Edie Martin, London England, actress (Titfield Thunderbolt) on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer  

Jan 04   Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies in the year 1880.  

Jan 05   On this day in history nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer  

Jan 06   Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin) on this day in history.  

Jan 08   [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Jan 09   In the year 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days  

Jan 10   Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause) on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer in the year 1880.  

Jan 17   Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops) in the year 1880.  

Jan 17   On this day in history the birth of Mack Sennett, American director  

Jan 18   Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis) on this day in history.  

Jan 21   In the year 1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis  

Jan 21   Jeffree & Pendray install Victoria's*(British Columbia) first business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory on this day in history.  

Jan 21   The first US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN on this day in history.  

Jan 24   In the year 1880 elisabeth Achelis, creator (World Calendar)  

Jan 25   On this day in history francis George Scott, composer  

Jan 26   Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, general (WW II), he did return! in the year 1880.  

Jan 26   The birth of Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general in the year 1880.  

Jan 27   In the year 1880 thomas A. Edison receives a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb.  

Jan 27   Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp on this day in history.  

Jan 28   Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (Engld wicket-keeper before & after WW I) on this day in history.  

Jan 29   On this day in history 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&O used a car ferry. An ice railway was laid each winter until 1883 in the year 1880.  

Feb 01   Antonio Guarnieri, composer in the year 1880.  

Feb 01   The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published in the year 1880.  

Feb 02   SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton on this day in history.  

Feb 02   On this day in history sS Strathleven arrives in London with first Australian frozen mutton  

Feb 03   In the year 1880 arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)  

Feb 04   Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC on this day in history.  

Feb 08   In the year 1880 franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)  

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Jan 01   Edie Martin, London England, actress (Titfield Thunderbolt) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev)  

Jan 02   Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05   Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 06   In the year 1880 birth of tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)  

Jan 06   In the year 1880 birth of yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer  

Jan 06   Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940) was born in the year 1880.  

Jan 10   Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause) was born in the year 1880.  

Jan 04   Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies in the year 1880.  

Jan 08   On this day in history [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60  

Jan 27   In the year 1880 death of edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)  

Feb 29   In the year 1880 death of sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 February)  

Mar 02   Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790) died on this day in history.  

Mar 15   Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51 in the year 1880.  

Mar 23   Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Mar 25   Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1880.