Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1881 – Louella Parsons, American columnist ( d. 1972 )

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

* 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* Haliotis pourtalesii Dall, 1881 – the Pourtale ’ s abalone

* 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( d. 1954 )

* 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

* 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor ( d. 1953 )

* 1881 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast ( d. 1942 )

* 1881 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist ( d. 1956 )

* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

* 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer ( d. 1955 )

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

* Alexander II of Russia ( 1818 – 1881 ), emperor of Russia

* Alexander II of Russia ( 1818 – 1881 ), Emperor of Russia

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its home matches at Flemington Hill, but moved to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1881.

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

During his last period in office, in 1881, William Ewart Gladstone claimed residence in numbers 10, 11 and 12 for himself and his family.

* During 1881 & 1882, railroad tracks were laid down and a railroad station was built.

During that time, Burnside, who had been a Democrat before the war, ran as a Republican, playing a prominent role in military affairs as well as serving as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in 1881.

During the Reichstag elections, the fifteen deputies of 1874, 1881, 1884 ( but one ) and 1887 were called protester deputies ( fr: députés protestataires ) because they expressed to the Parliament their opposition to the annexation by means of the 1874 motion in French language: « May it please the Reichstag to decide that the populations of Alsace-Lorraine that were annexed, without having been consulted, to the Germanic Empire by the treaty of Frankfurt have to come out particularly about this annexation.

* During the summer of 1881, after the July 2 shooting of President James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau.

During the James A. Garfield administration ( March 4 — September 19, 1881 ), the anglophobic Secretary of State James G. Blaine wanted to advance the US presence in Latin America.

During the 19th century, other instrumentalists and singers won international recognition, for example, the violinist Franjo Krežma ( 1862 – 1881 ), singers, among which Ilma Murska ( 1834 – 1889 ), Matilda Mallinger ( 1847 – 1920 ) who sang at the opening night of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1868, Milka Trnina ( 1863 – 1941 ) and Josip Kašman ( 1850 – 1925 ), the first Croatian singer to appear at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

During the latter part of the 19th century and in the 20th century, other Grandes écoles were established so as to further develop education in newer fields of sciences and technologies, including École nationale supérieure des télécommunications ( 1878 ), Hautes Études Commerciales ( 1881 ), École supérieure d ' électricité ( 1894 ) and Supaero ( 1909 ).

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Arab countries fell under European domination in rapid succession: Algeria in 1830, Tunisia in 1881, Egypt in 1882, the Sudan in 1898, Morocco in 1907-12, Libya in 1911, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria in 1918.

During his stays in Paris, Vikelas embarked on translating Shakespeare plays into Greek: King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and Othello during his wife's first stay ( 1878 ), and Macbeth and Hamlet during the second ( 1881 ).

During the 1870s development of Boscombe was such that the population at the census of 1881 had grown to 1, 895-a more than sixfold increase.

During this period top-class tournaments were rare and Zukertort's best performances were mostly in matches, notably against Anderssen in 1871 and Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1881 ( 6 wins, 2 losses, 5 draws ).

During Reconstruction, its name was changed to Tornado in 1881.

During the 1880s boom, the population of Collingwood increased by half, from 23, 829 ( 1881 ) to 35, 070 ( 1891 ), and the number of dwellings rose from nearly 5, 000 to 7, 000.

During the 1881 – 82 season the 80-member chorus was joined by an orchestra of 31 members.

During his wartime service, Monsarrat claimed to have seen the ghost ship Flying Dutchman while sailing the Pacific, near the location where the young King George V had seen her in 1881.

During the summer of 1881, White came down with a fever and was taken to the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

During the Pervomartovtsi trial in March 1881, Gelfman refused to admit her guilt, but she was nevertheless sentenced to death by hanging for her alleged part in the assassination of the Tsar.

During a mission in Europe for the LDS Church from 1881 to 1883, he acted as editor of the church publication Millennial Star.

During the 1850s he moved away, but returned to Oulton Broad in 1874 where he stayed until his death in 1881.