In history, year 1881 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 1881.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 12 march | Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international football player. |
| 16 april | Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist. |
| 12 may | Under the threat of invasion, the Bey of Tunis Muhammad IIIas-Sadiq signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a Frenchprotectorate. |
| 21 may | Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. |
| 29 june | In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan. His proclamation came during a period of widespread resentment among the Sudanese population of the oppressive policies of the Turco-Egyptian rulers, and capitalized on the messianic beliefs popular among the various Sudanese religious sects of the time. |
| 01 july | The world's first international telephone call was made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the calling party and the called party. It was invented by Graham Bell. |
| 02 july | U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at theBaltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C. |
| 23 july | The International Federation of Gymnastics, the world's oldestinternational sport federation, was founded in Liège, Belgium. |
| 13 october | Determined to bring about the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language as a way of unifying Jews, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had what isbelieved to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew while living inParis. |
| 14 october | Determined to bring about the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language as a way of unifying Jews, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had what isbelieved to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew while living inParis. |
| 26 october | The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, one of the most famousgunfights in the history of the American Old West, took place inTombstone, Arizona, between the faction of Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton'sgang. |
| 21 May | US Nation Lawn Tennis Association was established. |
| 16 June | Austria and Hungary signed military treaties with Serbia. |
| 11 October | American inventor David Henderson Houston patented the first roll of cameras. |
| 31 August | Tennis championship was played for the first time in America. |
| 08 December | More than 800 people died in a theater fire in the European country of Austria, Vienna. |
| 25 January | Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company. |
| 01 February | St. Stephen's College, the oldest college in Delhi, was established. |
| 04 February | The first issue of the daily newspaper Kesari in the editing of Lokmanya Tilak appeared in the market. |
| 14 February | India's first homeopathic medical college was established in Kolkata. |
| 11 March | The statue of Ramnath Tagore was installed in the town hall of Calcutta (now Kolkata). She is the first Indian to be enshrined in the town hall. |
| 25 January | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell founded the Oriental Telephone Company. |
| 19 February | Kansas became the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages. |
| 04 March | James A. Garfield was sworn in as the 20th President of the United States. |
| 11 April | Spelmann College was established. |
| 21 May | The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton. |
| 16 June | Austria - Hungary and Serbia signed military treaties. |
| 01 July | The first international conversation over the phone occurred between "Calais" and "St. Stephen's". |
| 27 August | The Atlantic's fifth hurricane in Florida and Karolins killed about 700 people. |
| 20 September | Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st President. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 June | Walter Egan / Golfer / United States of America |
| 02 July | Royal Hurlburt Weller / Politician / United States of America |
| 02 February | Orval Overall / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 04 March | Richard C. Tolman / Chemist / United States of America |
| 06 August | Louella Parsons / Journalist / United States of America |
| 08 January | Linnie Marsh Wolfe / Author / United States of America |
| 08 August | Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist / Field Marshal / Germany |
| 11 August | Aleksander Aberg / Wrestler / Estonia |
| 11 May | Jan van Gilse / Composer / Netherlands |
| 14 April | Husain Salaahuddin / Poet / Maldives |
| 14 August | Francis Ford / Actor / United States of America |
| 14 May | George Murray Hulbert / Politician / United States of America |
| 15 August | Alfred Wagenknecht / Politician / United States of America |
| 16 March | Fannie Charles Dillon / Composer / United States of America |
| 18 January | Gaston Gallimard / Publisher / France |
| 19 June | Maginel Wright Enright / Illustrator / United States of America |
| 25 November | Jacob Fichman / Poet / Israel |
| 26 June | Ya'akov Cohen / Poet / Israel |
| 27 February | L. E. J. Brouwer / Philosopher / Netherlands |
| 31 December | Max Pechstein / Painter / Germany |