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The 1880s (pronounced "eighteen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889. The period was characterized in general by economic growth and prosperity in many parts of the world, especially Europe and the Americas, with the emergence … See more
Wars
• Aceh War (1873–1904)
• War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
• First Boer War (1880–1881)
• Mahdist War (1881–1899) See more• May to August, 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupted cataclysmically; 36,000 people were killed, the majority being killed by the resulting tsunami.
• September 1887: The Yellow river flooded and killed about 900,000 people. See more• About 600,000 Swedes Emigrated to America.
• Chinese, Scandinavians and Irish immigrants laid 73,000 miles (117,000 km) of Railroad tracks in America.
• Syrian Canadians started Immigrating to the Americas. See morePolitics
• Eugène Borel, Director Universal Postal Union
• Louis Curchod, Director International … See moreProminent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:
• 13 March 1881 – Assassination of the Tsar of the See moreTechnology
• 1880: Oliver Heaviside of Camden Town, London, England receives a patent for the coaxial cable. In 1887, Heaviside introduced the … See moreLiterature and arts
• Friedrich Nietzsche published Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
• Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Carlo Collodi published The Adventures of Pinocchio. See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - See More
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