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1880s
Events and Trends
Technology
- Development and commercial production of electric lighting was underway.
- Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobiles were undertaken by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
- The first commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings occurred.
- Steel frame construction of skyscraper|"sky-scrapers" happened for the first time.
- February 16, 1880: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded in New York City.
- Construction began on the Panama Canal by the French. This was the first attempt to build the Canal; it would end in failure.
- Lewis Ticehurst invented the drinking straw.
- 1884: Smokeless powder was brought from France.
Science
- Heinrich Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect
- The Michelson-Morley experiment was undertaken, which suggested that the speed of light is invariant.
- The James-Lange theory of emotion was produced.
Literature and Arts
- Friedrich Nietzsche published Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
- Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
- Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- First edition of Oxford English Dictionary was published.
- Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes tale.
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Other
- Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupted Cataclysm|cataclysmically; 36,000 people were killed, the majority being slain by the resulting tsunami.
- About 300,000 Sweden|Swedes emigrated to the United States
- A major step in Seventh-day Adventist's understanding of Righteousness by Faith occurred in 1888.
- Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants laid 73,000 miles of railroad tracks in the USA.
People
- The last known surviving person born in the 1880s, María Capovilla, would die on August 27, 2006.
- Ned Kelly was hanged in the Melbourne Gaol.
World Leaders
- Emperor Franz Josef of Austria|Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
- Prime Min Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
- Guangxu Emperor (China)
- Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany|Wilhelm I (German Empire)
- Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II (German Empire)
- Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (German Empire)
- King Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I (Italy)
- Pope Leo XIII
- Emperor Emperor Meiji of Japan|Meiji (Japan)
- General Porfirio Díaz (Mexico)
- Czar Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II (Russia)
- King Alfonso XII (Spain)
- Queen - Empress Victoria of the United Kingdom|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 of Brazil | Pedro II (Brazil)
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