1880 - What happened in 1880 ?

January 1880

Thursday 01:

Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.

Friday 09:

The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.

Sunday 11:

Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.

Tuesday 27:

Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

February 1880

Sunday 01:

First edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.

Monday 02:

The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

Friday 13:

Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

March 1880

Wednesday 10:

Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.

Thursday 11:

Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)

May 1880

Thursday 13:

In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

June 1880

Monday 07:

Assault and Take of Morro de Arica (Arica Tall Hill),it meant the end of the Campaign of Tacna and Arica during the War of the Pacific.

Thursday 24:

First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

Monday 28:

Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.

Tuesday 29:

France annexes Tahiti

July 1880

Friday 16:

Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.

Tuesday 27:

British army defeated at Battle of Maiwand in Afghanistan.

August 1880

Saturday 14:

Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed

October 1880

Friday 01:

1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

Friday 15:

Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.

November 1880

Thursday 11:

Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.

Monday 22:

Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.

December 1880

Tuesday 21:

Isle of Man becomes first political entity that allows women to vote

Thursday 30:

The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger, its first president