Page 7: Historical Events In 1880
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Oct 15 K”ln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun 


Oct 16 Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64. 


Oct 20 Amsterdam Free University opens. 


Oct 22 Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39) 


Oct 23 Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield). 


Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday. 


Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday. 


Oct 30 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal) 


Nov 01 Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift) 


Nov 02 James A Garfield (R) elected President. 


Nov 02 John Foulds, composer 


Nov 03 Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908). 


Nov 07 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72. 


Nov 08 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66 


Nov 08 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater 


Nov 09 Rudolph Karel, composer. 


Nov 10 Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange) 


Nov 11 Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol 


Nov 11 Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies 


Nov 12 Mines explosion at Stellerton Nova Scotia in the Foord Pit results in the deaths of 50. 


Nov 14 Eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) 


Nov 16 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28] 


Nov 19 Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74 


Nov 21 Franz Hessel, writer. 


Nov 21 Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo. 


Nov 24 Hanri Reber, composer, dies at 73 


Nov 24 Southern University established 


Nov 24 Southern University forms. 


Nov 25 Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf 


Nov 26 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52 


Nov 28 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16] 


Dec 02 Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65 


Dec 05 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor 


Dec 06 The Edmonton Bulletin, the inaugural newspaper in Edmonton and in the province of Alberta begins publication. 


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