In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte ( 11 October 1815 – 7 April 1881 ) was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp.

The extension of European control over Africa and Asia added a further dimension to the rivalry and mutual suspicion which characterized international diplomacy in the decades preceding World War I. France's seizure of Tunisia ( 1881 ) initiated fifteen years of tension with Italy, which had hoped to take the country and which retaliated by allying with Germany and waging a decade-long tariff war with France.

With this aim in mind, Italy joined the German-Austrian Alliance to form the Triple Alliance, partly in anger at the French seizure of Tunisia in 1881, which many Italians had seen as a potential colony, partly to guarantee herself support in case of foreign aggression: the main alliance compelled any signatory country to support the other parties if two other countries attacked.

He spent much time in Italy, where he laid the foundation of his collection of engraved gems and gemstones, which, having been increased by subsequent purchases in London, was sold by him in consequence of his failing eyesight, and was presented in 1881 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

After graduating he travelled to Italy in 1880, and from 1881 to 1883 he lived in Paris, where he studied with the French history painter Jean-Paul Laurens and met the American painter John Singer Sargent ( who was also a painter of male nudes, although this was little known in his lifetime ).

Tuke painted oil studies of young male nudes during a tour of Italy in his early twenties in 1881, but the theme did not become central to his work until after 1885, when he had moved to Falmouth, then still a secluded part of Cornwall and a part of the country with a very mild climate that was more agreeable for nude bathing.

A number were built by Frenchman Didier Numa Joubert ( 1816 – 1881 ), who bought of land from Mary Reiby from 1847 and used seventy stonemasons from Italy to construct solid artistic houses.

A specimen caught off of Italy, and examined in an Italian fish market in 1881, was reported to weigh an extraordinary at a length of.

From 1881 to 1886 he was president of the commission to inquire into the agricultural conditions of Italy, and edited the voluminous report on the subject.

After the unification of Italy was involved in a great economic boom largely due to intense mining of sulfur, but it was accompanied by various misfortunes: April 27, 1867 47 people died due to an explosion of fire damp in the mine of Trabonella, 65 miners died in November 12, 1881 in Gessolungo always an explosion, and another 51 in 1911 in Deliella and Trabonella.

In 1881 during an administrative reform of the Kingdom of Italy, the commune was renamed San Zeno Naviglio.

Carlo Carrà ( February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966 ) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1881 friend and artist William Preston Phelps travelled back to Europe to team up with Chase to go on a working tour of Italy, Venice, Capri then back to Germany.

Sir Richard and Lady MacDonnell lived near Hyde Park in London and after his retirement in 1872 they spent much time in Italy and France, dying at Hyères, 5 February 1881.

On a separate journey through southern France to northern Italy where he walked continuously for 56 hours, he eventually reached the island of Capri ( which Anita Bauer, Ehret's stated secretary, later claimed Ehret regarded as " the isle of the blessed "), with a follower born in 1881 called " Mr B.

Israel Zolli ( September 27, 1881, Brody, Galicia – March 2, 1956, Rome, Italy ) was from 1939 to 1945 Chief Rabbi of Rome.

Verboeckhoven visited England in 1826, Germany in 1828, and France and Italy in 1841, and died at Brussels in 1881.

This was followed by " The New Italy and The Old Zealots " ( La Nuova Italia ed i Vecchi Zelanti, published in 1881 ), another attack on the Vatican policy ; and by his " Royal Vatican " ( Vaticano Regio, published in 1883 ), in which he accuses the Vatican of selling sacred objects and declares that secularism came from the false principles accepted by the Curia.

Serbia had gained substantial territory during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, while Greece acquired Thessaly in 1881 ( although it lost a small area back to the Ottoman Empire in 1897 ) and Bulgaria ( an autonomous principality since 1878 ) incorporated the formerly distinct province of Eastern Rumelia ( 1885 ).

By the 1870 ’ s Mary was telling her students “ Some day I will have a church of my own .” In 1879 she and her students established the Church of Christ, Scientist, “ to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing .” In 1892 at Eddy ’ s direction, the church reorganized as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, “ designed to be built on the Rock, Christ ....” Some years later in 1881, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students in Boston, Massachusetts between the years 1882 and 1889.

The site had previously been selected in 1881 for a station ( an old boxcar ) and section house and was named Lind by the railroad although the exact origin of that name has been lost.

By contrast an anonymous 1881 review in the Peoria Journal said: “ they have lost the wild rhythms, the barbaric melody, the passion …. hey smack of the North ….” Some fifty years later, Zora Neale Hurston in her 1938 book The Sanctified Church criticized Fisk singers, and similar groups at Tuskegee and Hampton, as using a " Glee Club style " that was " full of musicians ' tricks " not to be found in the original Negro spirituals, urging readers to visit an " unfashionable Negro church " to experience real Negro spirituals.

Bolzano also did valuable work in mathematics, which remained virtually unknown until Otto Stolz rediscovered many of his lost journal articles and republished them in 1881.

The discovery of the Torrington Tin Lode in was made 1881 but the small prospectors soon lost control to overseas mining companies.

The market had lost its prominence in the 18th century to St Ives, and by 1881 ' St Ives has drained our market of cattle, and only a few pigs are now its staple ', and survived as a pleasure market selling trinkets.

Very soon after the cost of getting the tithes removed had been met, the town was struck by the Eyemouth Disaster when on 14 October 1881 most of the fishing fleet, some 20 boats and 129 men from the town were lost in a terrible storm.

He lost the 1881 election.

As a result of the heresy trial, he lost his position at the Aberdeen Free Church College in 1881 and took up a position as a reader in Arabic at the University of Cambridge, where he eventually rose to the position of University Librarian, Professor of Arabic and a fellow of Christ's College.

On March 1, 1881, Mikhaylov was one of the plotters but when the Tsar decided to pay a brief visit to his cousin, the Grand Duchess Catherine, Mikhaylov lost his nerve, took his missile back to Headquarters, and went home.

He lost his sight in 1880 and died in New York City in 1881 waiting to undergo an operation to restore it.

As far back as 1878 he had declared himself opposed to universal suffrage, a declaration that lost him his seat from 1879 to 1881.

When Cashman's sister Fanny lost her husband in 1881, Cashman arranged for Fanny and her five children to move to nearby Tucson, Arizona.

He lost his life in 1881 on the east wall during the third ascent with Damiano Marinelli and guide P. Pedranzini.

Author Nelson Blake noted in his biography of William Mahone that, while the former General had lost control of " his " ( and wife Otelia's ) railroad and its future by 1881, he retained personal ownership of considerable land in the new coal regions.

Since the 1881 merger, only 62 matches were lost from 263 played in the remaining nine years of the decade.

He made two trips to North America and four to Australia, captaining the English cricket team in four Test matches on the all-professional tour of Australia in 1881 / 82, where his side lost and drew two each.

Mahone lost control in 1881 to northern financial interests who renamed it the Norfolk and Western Railway.

The government had to pass a Coercion Act as early as 1881 because of the increase in violence in Ireland ; it lost support to the Home Rule Movement, which won 9 out of 14 Irish by-elections ( 1870-4 ), mainly formerly Liberal held seats.

In April 1881, Gompers lost a re-election campaign for the presidency of Local 144 of the Cigar Makers ' International Union to a coalition of socialists who advocated militancy as a way to improve working conditions of cigar makers.

The town developed a lot in the 19th century, still it lost its town status in 1881.

Sothern's widow contested the will but lost, and it took Cowan until 31 May 1881 to obtain probate.

She was purchased by the Navy in 1881 and was lost in an accidental fire At Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka later that same year.