1881 - What happened in 1881 ?

January 1881

Tuesday 25:

Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

February 1881

Saturday 05:

Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.

Sunday 13:

The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.

Saturday 19:

Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

Thursday 24:

China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty

March 1881

Friday 04:

A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.

Sunday 13:

Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was 1 March in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

Saturday 26:

Domnitor Carol I of the Principality of Romania is proclaimed the first King of Romania.

April 1881

Saturday 16:

In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

Monday 25:

Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

May 1881

Thursday 12:

In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

Saturday 21:

The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

June 1881

Monday 13:

The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

July 1881

Friday 01:

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.

Saturday 02:

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.

Monday 04:

In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.

Wednesday 20:

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana

September 1881

Tuesday 20:

Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.

October 1881

Wednesday 26:

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.

Saturday 29:

The Judge (US magazine) first published.

November 1881

Saturday 19:

A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.