1881 Calendar
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1881 Historical Event(s)
February 13, 1881
– The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
February 24, 1881
– China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
March 13, 1881
– Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
March 27, 1881
– Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
April 16, 1881
– In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
May 12, 1881
– In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
June 13, 1881
– The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
June 28, 1881
– Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
July 1, 1881
– The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
July 4, 1881
– In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
Who Were Born On 1881?
January 21, 1881
– Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown)
March 4, 1881
– Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
March 19, 1881
– Edith Nourse Rogers, American social welfare volunteer and politician (d. 1960)
March 23, 1881
– Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
May 1, 1881
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
May 2, 1881
– Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
August 6, 1881
– Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
September 25, 1881
– Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
November 1, 1881
– Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)