Page 3: Historical Events In 1881

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

Mar 13   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 in the year 1881.   

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   In the year 1881 modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42   

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

Mar 18   Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG) on this day in history.   

Mar 18   Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963) in the year 1881.   

Mar 21   In the year 1881 hermann Sandby, composer   

Mar 23   On this day in history boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war   

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

Mar 23   On this day in history nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45   

Mar 24   In the year 1881 friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

Mar 25   Béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra) on this day in history.   

Mar 26   Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again on this day in history.   

Mar 27   On this day in history rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.   

Mar 28   In the year 1881 greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey   

Mar 28   In the year 1881 modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 [OS=Mar 16]   

Mar 31   In the year 1881 gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73   

Apr 01   Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem on this day in history.   

Apr 03   On this day in history alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53)   

Apr 04   Charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls) in the year 1881.   

Apr 05   In the year 1881 transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty   

Apr 07   Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65 in the year 1881.   

Apr 08   Fernand Lamy, composer in the year 1881.   

Apr 11   In the year 1881 harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer   

Apr 11   Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 in the year 1881.   

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

Apr 14   On this day in history anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)   

Apr 14   The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46) in the year 1881.   

Apr 16   George William Martin, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

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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   In the year 1881 birth of wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)   

Jan 05   In the year 1881 birth of nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer   

Jan 08   Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 09   In the year 1881 birth of giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)   

Jan 01   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died in the year 1881.   

Jan 21   In the year 1881 death of wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)   

Jan 25   Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794) died in the year 1881.   

Jan 30   In the year 1881 jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58   

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

Feb 05   In the year 1881 thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85   

Feb 06   Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   On this day in history fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73