Administered within the Rhine Province, by 1880 the population was 80, 000.

In 1880, the Aachen tramway network was opened, and in 1895 it was electrified.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

The law was made official on 6 July 1880, and the Ministry of the Interior recommended to Prefects that the day should be " celebrated with all the brilliance that the local resources allow ".

Thus in 1880 and 1882, Benedictine teaching monks were effectively exiled ; this was not completed until 1901.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

The first person to describe the mathematics behind Brownian motion was Thorvald N. Thiele in a paper on the method of least squares published in 1880.

In 1880, a stretch of Broadway between Union Square and Madison Square was illuminated by Brush arc lamps, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States.

A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin.

Although the name Chordata is often attributed to William Bateson ( 1885 ), it was already in common use in by 1880.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Between 1859 and 1891, Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey, where he enjoyed his highly influential father's protection until the latter's death in 1880.

As early as 1877, Princeton University was known to have a " Princeton Cheer ", documented in the February 22, 1877, March 12, 1880, and November 4, 1881, issues of the Daily Princetonian.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

A more reliable and controllable method of producing cathode rays was investigated by Hittorf and Goldstein, and rediscovered by Thomas Edison in 1880.

After 1880, profits from printing became smaller, there was over capacity and the firms started to form combines.

The area that exploded on 4 January 1880 was reported to be " fully nine square miles ".

Category: Recurring events established in 1880

Perhaps earlier known to Arab navigators, the Glorieuses were named and settled in 1880 by a Frenchman, Hippolyte Caltaux, who established a coconut plantation on Grande Glorieuse.

In 1880 Bismarck gave way, and a number of colonies were established overseas.

During his reign ( 1880 – 1901 ), the British and Russians officially established the boundaries of what would become modern Afghanistan.

It was established in 1869, reached 28, 000 members in 1880, then jumped to 100, 000 in 1885.

In March 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.

The first organized army of Afghanistan ( in the modern sense ) was established after the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880 when the nation was ruled by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan.

England returned to Australia in 1878 – 79 for a one off test match, and when the Australians came to England in 1880, a firm pattern of tours was established.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

Thomas Edison of Milan, Ohio established Edison Illuminating Company on December 17, 1880.

The Amateur Athletic Association ( AAA ) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

Theodore Steinway established a new piano factory in the free German city of Hamburg in 1880.

Category: Populated places established in 1880

In 1880, Brush established the Brush Electric Company.

Canadian sovereignty, originally ( 1870 – 80 ) only over island portions that drained into Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, over all of them was not established until the 1880 transfer by Britain to Canada of the remaining islands ; the District of Franklin was established in 1895, which comprised almost all of the archipelago ; the district was dissolved upon the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the Photophone, at Bell's newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC.

* Neaera, ethmiid moth genus invalidly established by Chambers in 1880 ; now synonym of Elachista

The university was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 becoming England's first civic university ; it was renamed the Victoria University of Manchester in 1903 and absorbed Owens College the following year.

Category: Educational institutions established in 1880

Other notable buildings are the Forbes Mill annex, dating to 1880 and now housing a history museum ; Los Gatos High School which dates from the 1920s ; and the Old Town Shopping Center, formerly the University Avenue School ( the school was established in 1882 ; the current buildings date to 1923 ).