1880s

1880s

Events and Trends

Technology

* Development and commercial production of electric lighting
* Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
* First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
* First steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers"
* American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded 16 February 1880, New York, N.Y.
* Construction begins on the Panama Canal by the French. This is the first attempt to build the Canal.
*Lewis Ticehurst invented the drinking straw
*Smokeless powder brought from France in 1884

cience

* Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect
* Michelson-Morley experiment, which suggested that the speed of light is invariant
* James-Lange theory of emotion

Literature and Arts

* Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
* Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
* Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov.
* Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
* First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published.
* Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale.
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Other

* Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami
* About 300,000 Swedes emigrate to the United States
* A major step in Seventh-day Adventist's understanding of Righteousness by Faith occurred in 1888.

People

* The last surviving person born in the 1880s, María Capovilla, died on August 27, 2006.
* Ned Kelly is hanged in the Melbourne Gaol.


=World Leaders=
* Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
* Prime Min Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
* Guangxu Emperor (China)
* Emperor Wilhelm I (German Empire)
* Emperor Wilhelm II (German Empire)
* Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (German Empire)
* King Umberto I (Italy)
* Pope Leo XIII
* Emperor Meiji (Japan)
* General Porfirio Díaz (Mexico)
* Czar Alexander II (Russia)
* King Alfonso XII (Spain)
* Queen - Empress Victoria (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
* Prime Min William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
* Prime Min Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) President James Garfield (United States)
* President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States)
* President Chester A. Arthur (United States)
* President Grover Cleveland (United States)
* Nasser-al-Din Shah of Qajar dynasty (Persia)
* Emperor Pedro II (Brazil)


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