Historical Events In 1881

May 17   In the year 1881 frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC  

May 17   Revised version of New Testament in the year 1881.  

May 18   Georgi Atanasov, composer in the year 1881.  

May 20   Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general) in the year 1881.  

May 21   On this day in history american Red Cross founded by Clara Barton  

May 21   US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed on this day in history.  

May 23   On this day in history kit Carson, frontiersman, dies  

May 24   Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die on this day in history.  

May 24   In the year 1881 mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer  

May 24   Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies in the year 1881.  

May 24   In the year 1881 the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers  

May 25   In the year 1881 the birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer  

May 27   In the year 1881 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5  

May 27   On this day in history rudolf Pannwitz, German writer  

May 29   On this day in history frederik Septimus Kelly, composer  

Jun 01   Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange in the year 1881.  

Jun 01   On this day in history cholera in Egypt  

Jun 01   Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people in the year 1881.  

Jun 02   Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens in the year 1881.  

Jun 03   In the year 1881 japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian  

Jun 04   On this day in history clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)  

Jun 06   On this day in history henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61  

Jun 07   On this day in history 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47  

Jun 08   In the year 1881 prospero Bisquertt, composer  

Jun 12   Juan de Hernandez, composer in the year 1881.  

Jun 13   The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack in the year 1881.  

Jun 14   On this day in history player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)  

Jun 14   On this day in history player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass  

Jun 16   On this day in history austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty  

Jun 18   On this day in history eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader  

Jun 19   Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan in the year 1881.  

Jun 24   200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico in the year 1881.  

Jun 29   Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud in the year 1881.  

Jun 30   On this day in history henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia  

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)  

Jan 01   In the year 1881 birth of vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)  

Jan 04   Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) was born in the year 1881.  

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

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

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   Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904) was born in the year 1881.  

Jan 01   On this day in history death of louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)  

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

Jan 25   Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794) died on this day in history.  

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

Feb 02   Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 in the year 1881.  

Feb 05   On this day in history thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85  

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

Feb 07   Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 in the year 1881.