1880 Calendar
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1880 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1880
– Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
January 9, 1880
– The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
February 13, 1880
– Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
May 11, 1880
– Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
May 13, 1880
– In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 29, 1880
– France annexes Tahiti.
July 16, 1880
– Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
July 27, 1880
– Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
October 1, 1880
– John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
October 15, 1880
– Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
Who Were Born On 1880?
January 22, 1880
– Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
February 9, 1880
– Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
March 3, 1880
– Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946)
May 6, 1880
– William J. Simmons, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1945)
August 12, 1880
– Radclyffe Hall, British poet, novelist and LGBT activist (d. 1943)
August 17, 1880
– Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948)
September 23, 1880
– John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
November 6, 1880
– Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
November 9, 1880
– Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
November 18, 1880
– Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1952)