Page 8: Historical Events In 1880
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Dec 08 5000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa 


Dec 12 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 


Dec 15 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76 


Dec 16 Republic of South-Africa forms. 


Dec 19 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer 


Dec 20 Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten. 


Dec 20 New York's Broadway lit by electricity, is recorded as becoming known as "Great White Way". 


Dec 22 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday. 


Dec 27 Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75. 


Dec 28 Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet 


Dec 29 Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer 


Dec 30 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein. 


Dec 31 George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) 


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