* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – Earle Page, Australian politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1880 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player ( d. 1925 )

* 1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician ( d. 1880 )

* 1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian military commander ( d. 1880 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

* 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author ( d. 1932 )

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1880 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian ( d. 1998 )

* 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* 1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player ( b. 1880 )

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

During the First Boer War, the city was besieged by Republican forces in December 1880 and March 1881.

In 16 December 1880 the independence of the republic was proclaimed again, leading to the First Boer War.

* First Boer War, 1880 conflict

The Second Boer War and the earlier, much less well known, First Boer War ( December 1880 to March 1881 ) are collectively known as the Boer Wars.

The British recognised the two Boer republics in 1852 and 1854, but British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 led to the First Boer War in 1880 – 81.

In the First Boer War of 1880 – 81 the Boers of the Transvaal Republic had proved skilful fighters in resisting the British attempt at annexation, in causing in a series of British defeats.

The Second Mesa Company arrived in 1879 and settled to the west of where the First Mesa Company settled in 1880, due to lack of available farmland.

The multi steepled First Congregational Church was completed on June 6, 1880.

The First Boer War started in 1880, and the Boer forces were victorious at Majuba in 1881.

First run in 1861, by 1880 it was already known world-wide and was drawing crowds of 100, 000.

First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is slightly wider than the earlier taxon Marsupialia, ( Illiger, 1811 ); it contains the extant mammals with abdominal pouches ( most female marsupials ) as well as all animals more closely related to them than to placental animals like armadillos and humans.

Largely through Joseph F. Smith's influence, Smith's 1838 account of the First Vision became part of the canon of the LDS Church in 1880 when the faith canonized Smith's early history as part of the Pearl of Great Price.

He notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1885 and 1886, and was one of only two people to hold the office of First Lord of the Treasury and was never Prime Minister.

The First Boer War (, literally First Farmer's War ), literally First Freedom War ) also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881.

R. David and Goliath: The First War of Independence, 1880 – 1881 ( Johannesburg: SA National Museum of Military History, 1981 ).

Online at Internet Archive ( Title page, First entry, Supplément, Table alphabétique des noms des compositeurs cités dans ce livre ; Deuxième supplément, 1869 – 1872, Table alphabétique des noms des compositeurs cités dans ce deuxième supplément ; Troisième supplément, 1873 – 1876, Table alphabétique des noms des compositeurs cités dans ce troisième supplément ; Quatrième supplément, 1877 – 1880, Table alphabétique des noms des compositeurs cités dans ce quatrième supplément ).

First Latvian corporation in Riga was Selonija, founded in 1880 at the Riga Polytechnicum.

* 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4, 1879, filed for U. S. patent 223, 898 ( granted on January 27, 1880 ) for an electric lamp using " a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires ".

Edison patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.

* 1880 – 1882: Development and commercial production of electric lighting was underway.

The electric arc lights went into regular service on December 20, 1880.

electric unit designed around 1870 by Gustave Trouvé, and patented in May 1880 ( Patent N ° 136, 560 ).

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* 1880 – Werner von Siemens builds first electric elevator.

), transport goods to market, and later to generate electric power ( after 1880 ).

Scranton became known as the Electric City when electric lights were introduced at Dickson Locomotive Works in 1880.

The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880.

He analysed spectra of 35 elements, using the Bunsen burner, electric spark or both to induce luminescence and in this way discovered the lanthanides samarium ( 1880 ), dysprosium ( 1886 ) and europium ( 1890 ).

St. Moritz developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century and the first electric light in Switzerland was installed in 1878 at the Kulm Hotel and the first curling tournament on the continent held in 1880.

The arc lamp was replaced in 1880 by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps in what Swan considered ' the first proper installation ' of electric lighting.

In 1880, electric lights were installed in the mine and the world ’ s first long distance telephone line was developed to service the mine, passing through North Bloomfield as it made its way from French Corral to Bowman Lake.

Poznań gained its first electric trams in 1898 ( horse-drawn trams had operated since 1880, running from the new rail station to the Old Market Square, and later to the cathedral ; see Tramways in Poznań ).

The Chifley Cave, originally known as the Left Imperial Cave but named for Prime Minister Ben Chifley in 1952, was the first of the caves to be lit with electric light, as early as 1880.

* Chifley Cave: Discovered in 1880 and with electric lighting installed almost immediately, the Chifley Cave was known as the Left Imperial Cave until 1952, when it was renamed in honour of the then recently-deceased former Prime Minister Ben Chifley, who grew up in nearby Bathurst.

The Chifley Cave was the first cave in the world to be lit by electric light, having been illuminated this way in 1880.

Since its opening on 1 July 1880, the single line between and Oban was worked by the electric token system, this being the first ever application of that system in everyday service.

Early experiments with electric light in caves were carried out by Lieutenant Edward Cracknel in 1880 at Chifley Cave, Jenolan Caves, Australia.

Thomas Edison's Patent drawing for an improvement in electric lamps, patented January 27, 1880