* 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 ).

* 1959 – Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter ( b. 1880 )

* Winifred Brunton ( 1880 – 1959 ), a painter from South Africa most famous for her haunting portraits of Egyptian pharaohs

* Winifred Brunton ( 1880 – 1959 ), South African painter

* Roger Brand ( 1880 – 1945 ) married Muriel Hectorina Lilian Montgomery ( d. 1988 ) on 21 November 1913 ; they had one child: Patricia Helen Winifred Brand ( b. 1926 ).

* January 29-Winifred Brunton, painter ( born 1880 )

* 1880 – George Poage, African American athlete ( d. 1962 )

On a per capita and absolute basis, more blacks were elected to public office during the period from 1865 to 1880 than at any other time in American history including a number of state legislatures which were effectively under the control of a strong African American caucus.

* Frequent lynchings of African Americans in Southern United States during the years 1880 – 1890.

The British attempted to annexe first the South African Republic in 1880, and then, in 1899, both the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.

By 1880 the population was 4, 347, and all except women and the 114 African Americans were fair game for the parties looking for votes.

* Cherry Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Goldsboro which first started in 1880 as a facility to treat mentally ill African Americans.

* Walter G. Alexander ( 1880 – 1953 ), first African American member of the New Jersey Legislature.

* Myers, Walter Dean, At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, ISBN 0-590-48669-1 ( some information for this article was derived from the editorial reviews of this book as listed here: ) Category: 1802 births Category: 1880 deaths Category: African royalty

Stick-fighting and African percussion music were banned in 1880, in response to the Canboulay Riots, where the colonial officials attempted to ban Carnival altogether.

Stick fighting and African percussion music were banned in 1880, in response to the Canboulay Riots.

The Latin, apparently the work of an African churchman of the time of the Fifth council, abounds in colloquial and semi-barbarous forms ; the version is not always careful, and sometimes almost hopelessly corrupt ( published by Cambridge University Press, 1880 – 1882 ).

Shepstone had been summoned home to advise the Colonial Office on South African affairs and he reached England in May 1879 ; on his return to Natal he retired ( 1880 ) from the public service.

* David Smith ( sport shooter ) ( 1880 – 1945 ), South African Olympic sport shooter

On April 5, 1880, an African American cadet at West Point, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, was found bruised and beaten in his cot.

Stick fighting and African percussion music were banned in 1880, in response to the Canboulay Riots.

After the First Boer War ( 1880 – 81 ), the South African Republic was granted its independence, albeit under British suzerainty.

For example, in 1880, the tenth US Census of Louisiana alone counted 57 % of interracial marriages between these Chinese Americans to be with African Americans and 43 % to be with European American women.

Clarence Cameron White ( August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960 ) was an African American neoromantic composer and concert violinist.

The first large-scale hiring began when the Consolidation Coal Company brought in large numbers of African Americans as strike breakers in 1880.

In 1880, Healy became the first African American to be assigned command of a US government ship.

In 1880, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Strauder v. West Virginia, that African Americans could not be excluded from juries.