Page 3: Historical Events In 1881

Mar 13   Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer on this day in history.   

Mar 13   In the year 1881 in Russia, Czar Alexander II is killed near the Winter Palace by a hand-bomb thrown by a member of the "People’s Will," a militant wing of the Narodniki movement, which advocated socialist reform in Russia and the elimination of the central government   

Mar 15   Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42 on this day in history.   

Mar 16   In the year 1881 barnum & Bailey Circus debuts   

Mar 16   Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42 in the year 1881.   

Mar 17   In the year 1881 kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)   

Mar 18   In the year 1881 barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)   

Mar 18   In the year 1881 oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)   

Mar 21   On this day in history hermann Sandby, composer   

Mar 23   In the year 1881 boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war   

Mar 23   In the year 1881 boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war   

Mar 23   On this day in history gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die   

Mar 23   On this day in history hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)   

Mar 23   Nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

Mar 24   Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 in the year 1881.   

Mar 25   On this day in history béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)   

Mar 26   In the year 1881 thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.   

Mar 27   Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army in the year 1881.   

Mar 28   Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey on this day in history.   

Mar 28   Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 [OS=Mar 16] in the year 1881.   

Mar 31   Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1881.   

Apr 01   In the year 1881 anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem   

Apr 03   Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53) in the year 1881.   

Apr 04   On this day in history charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)   

Apr 05   Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty in the year 1881.   

Apr 07   On this day in history pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65   

Apr 08   Fernand Lamy, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer in the year 1881.   

Apr 11   On this day in history kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40   

Apr 11   In the year 1881 river ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die   

Apr 14   In the year 1881 anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)   

Apr 14   In the year 1881 the Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.   

Apr 16   Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46) on this day in history.   

Apr 16   In the year 1881 george William Martin, composer, dies at 56   

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Jan 01   Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)   

Jan 05   Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)   

Jan 09   Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1881 birth of edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)   

Jan 01   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died on this day in history.   

Jan 21   Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802) died in the year 1881.   

Jan 25   On this day in history death of konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)   

Jan 30   Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Feb 02   In the year 1881 aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59   

Feb 05   Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 in the year 1881.   

Feb 06   In the year 1881 pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68   

Feb 07   In the year 1881 fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73