In history, year 1880 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1880.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 13 february | American inventor Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect, which later formed the basis of vacuum tube diodes designed by English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming. |
| 11 may | A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad andsettlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle brokeout, leaving seven dead. |
| 24 june | O Canada, today the national anthem ofCanada, was first performed in Quebec City, Quebec, during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet. |
| 28 june | Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon NedKelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria. |
| 29 june | France annexes Tahiti. Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia; an overseas collectivity of the French Republic, sometimes referred to as an overseas country.[3] The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts |
| 14 august | Construction of the Cologne Cathedral—Germany's most visitedlandmark—was completed, 632 years after it had begun. |
| 01 september | The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan was routed by the British at theBattle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War. |
| 13 May | Thomas Edison tested his experimental electric railway at Menlo Park. |
| 01 June | The first pay-phone service was started. |
| 30 September | American doctor Henry Draper took the first picture of the Oraon Nebula. |
| 05 October | Alonzo Tea Cross patented the first ball point pen. |
| 17 November | The first three UK female graduates received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London. |
| 25 November | Laverne, a French physician, diagnosed the cause of malarial fever. |
| 01 January | Money order system started in the country. |
| 25 January | Renowned social reformer Keshav Chandra Sen started the New Vidyavan or Indian Brahmo Samaj by embracing Christian and Vaishnavi devotion in Brahmo Samaj. |
| 27 January | Thomas Alva Edison patented the electric bulb. |
| 22 January | Tuwang State School was established in Queensland Australia. |
| 02 February | The first electric street light wasb installed in Indiana. |
| 23 March | John Stevens of Adult designed the dough rolling mill. |
| 18 April | William Evert Gladstone Prime Minister again, defeating Benjamin Disraeli Dhara in the United Kingdom general elections. |
| 13 May | Thomas Edison performed his first electric rail in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
| 14 July | Dorchester prison opened in Canada. |
| 10 September | Pierre de Brazza signed a treaty with the Congo king Makaoka. |
| 04 October | The University of California was founded in Los Angeles. |
| 11 November | Australian bank robber Bushringer Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne. |
| 30 December | Paul Krueger ICT became its first president after Transvaal was declared a republic state. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 November | Alfred Wegener / Physicist / Germany |
| 03 March | Yōsuke Matsuoka / Politician / Japan |
| 05 August | Gertrude Rush / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 06 January | Tom Mix / Actor / United States of America |
| 09 November | Giles Gilbert Scott / Architect / United Kingdom |
| 11 June | Jeannette Rankin / Politician / United States of America |
| 11 March | Harry H. Laughlin / Sociologist / United States of America |
| 12 July | Tod Browning / Actor / United States of America |
| 17 March | Lawrence Oates / Lieutenant / United Kingdom |
| 18 January | Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster / Cardinal / Italy |
| 18 November | Naum Torbov / Architect / Bulgaria |
| 20 November | George McBride / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 21 March | Hans Hofmann / Painter / United States of America |
| 21 June | Arnold Gesell / Psychologist / United States of America |
| 22 March | Ernest C. Quigley / Footballer / United States of America |
| 22 September | Christabel Pankhurst / Activist / United Kingdom |
| 22 August | Gorch Fock / Poet / Germany |
| 23 August | Alexander Grin / Author / Russia |
| 23 September | John Boyd Orr / Politician / Scotland |
| 29 January | W. C. Fields / Actor / United States of America |