Historical Events In 1881

May 17   Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC in the year 1881.   

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

May 18   In the year 1881 georgi Atanasov, composer   

May 20   Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general) on this day in history.   

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

May 21   On this day in history uS Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed   

May 23   In the year 1881 kit Carson, frontiersman, dies   

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

May 24   On this day in history mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer   

May 24   On this day in history samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies   

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

May 25   The birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer in the year 1881.   

May 27   On this day in history 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5   

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

May 29   In the year 1881 frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   In the year 1881 bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

Jun 01   In the year 1881 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 on this day in history.   

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

Jun 04   In the year 1881 clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)   

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

Jun 07   15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47 in the year 1881.   

Jun 08   In the year 1881 prospero Bisquertt, composer   

Jun 12   On this day in history juan de Hernandez, composer   

Jun 13   The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack on this day in history.   

Jun 14   In the year 1881 player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)   

Jun 14   Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass in the year 1881.   

Jun 16   In the year 1881 austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty   

Jun 18   Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader in the year 1881.   

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

Jun 24   On this day in history 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico   

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   Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 01   Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1881 birth of wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)   

Jan 05   Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer was born in the year 1881.   

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

Jan 09   Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1881.   

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   On this day in history jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58   

Feb 02   On this day in history aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59   

Feb 05   Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 06   In the year 1881 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.