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.

Another production opened at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 January 1880, while productions in Christiania ( with Johanne Juell as Nora and Arnoldus Reimers as Torvald ) and Bergen followed shortly after.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

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 ".

Horse buses operated in many cities during the later part of the 1800s and early 1900s with one company in London operating 220 horse-buses by 1880.

Image: Berthe Morisot Winter aka Woman with a Muff. jpg | Winter aka Woman with a Muff, Dallas Museum of Arts 1880

He strongly disagreed with Disraeli's pro-Ottoman foreign policy and in 1880 he conducted the first outdoor mass-election campaign in Britain, known as the Midlothian campaign.

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

DECT operates in the 1880 – 1900 MHz band and defines ten channels from 1881. 792 MHz to 1897. 344 MHz with a band gap of 1728 kHz.

Gadolinium was first detected spectroscopically in 1880 by de Marignac who separated its oxide and is credited with its discovery.

In 1880, with the help of a relative and a grant, Puccini enrolled in the Milan Conservatory to study composition with Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Antonio Bazzini.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

He attended the Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and enrolled at the University of Turin in 1876, graduating in 1880 with high honours, after which the University employed him to assist first Enrico D ' Ovidio, and then Angelo Genocchi, the Chair of Infinitesimal calculus.

This, coupled with the kidney disease she had been afflicted with for the previous few years, led to her death on 22 December 1880 at the age of 61.

It was the seat of the archbishops, who ruled the surrounding area and ( from 1248 to 1880 ) built the great Cologne Cathedral, with sacred relics that made it a destination for many worshippers.

Oil production in the Los Angeles Basin started with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field in 1880, and continued with the development of the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1893, the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 1900, the Salt Lake Oil Field in 1902, and many others.

Huns in battle with the Alans, 1870s engraving after a drawing by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger | Johann Nepomuk Geiger ( 1805 – 1880 ).

Koch published his findings in 1876, and was rewarded with a job at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin in 1880.

In 1880, he went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany.

Subsequently, other descriptions of RLS were published, including those by Francois Boissier de Sauvages ( 1763 ), Magnus Huss ( 1849 ), Theodur Wittmaack ( 1861 ), George Miller Beard ( 1880 ), Georges Gilles de la Tourette ( 1898 ), Hermann Oppenheim ( 1923 ) and Frederick Gerard Allison ( 1943 ).

Sizaire-Naudin was founded by Maurice ( 1877 – 1970 ) and Georges Sizaire ( 1880 – 1924 ) and Louis Naudin ( 1876 – 1913 ) in around 1900.

Matisse's notoriety and preeminence as the leader of the new movement in modern painting continued to build throughout 1906 and 1907, and Matisse attracted a following of artists including Georges Braque ( 1880 – 1963 ), André Derain ( 1880 – 1954 ), Maurice de Vlaminck ( 1876 – 1958 ).

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On December 17, 1880, Edison founded the Edison Illuminating Company.

USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university.

* February 16, 1880: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded in New York City.

Later, Schools of Commerce ( founded 1889 ), Education ( f. 1878 ) and Domestic Science ( f. 1880 ) were added along with colleges at Didsbury, Crewe, Alsager and the former Domestic and Trades College ( f. 1911 ), latterly Hollings College.

The training college was founded in 1880 and by the 1950s was called the Manchester College of Housecraft.

In 1880, David Saradjishvili founded his Cognac Factory in Tbilisi, Georgia ( then part of the Russian Empire ) which was a crossroads for Turkish, Central Asian, and Persian trade routes.

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.

The city was founded on 10 September 1880 on the site of a Bateke village named Nkuna by an Italo-French explorer, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, after whom the city was named.

Jowett was founded in 1901 by brothers Benjamin ( 1877 — 1963 ) and William ( 1880 — 1965 ) Jowett with Arthur V Lamb.

Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

* 1880 Y O Ranch is founded by Charles Armand Schreiner.

Presbyterian College, located in Clinton, is a four year liberal-arts school founded in 1880.

* Owensboro Distilling Company, founded 1880

* Hill, Perkins and Company, founded 1880

* E. P. Millet and Company, founded 1880

* Daviess County Club Distillery, founded 1880

* Boulware and Wilhoute's Distillery, founded 1880

Additionally, Bell Canada, the former Bell Telephone Company of Canada ( founded in 1880 ) and which started separating from the Bell System in 1956, and completely by 1975, continues to use the " Bell " trademarks, which it owns outright in Canada.

Around the ARP the separate Protestant society began to grow: many Protestant schools were founded, a Protestant university ( the Free University was founded in 1880 ), and a paper ( De Standaard ).

The paper was founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins and in 1880 added a Sunday edition, thus becoming the city's first newspaper to publish seven days a week.

The city was founded in 1880 when the Southern Pacific Railroad came through.

Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.

The Tombstone Epitaph was founded on May 1, 1880.