* 1811 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader ( d. 1881 )

The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 to 1881.

* September 19 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader ( d. 1881 )

The Gothic Revival Bronson Memorial Church, originally constructed in 1835 as the Bethel Church, according to William Perrin's History of Summit County ( 1881 ) was an attempt to “ introduce moral and religious tactics among the vicious and unlawful practices of the canal boatmen .” In 1889 the church was remodeled in the Gothic Revival style.

* Alexander Petrie Campbell ( 1881 – 1963 ), Australian-born religious leader

Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah ( Arabic: محمد أحمد المهدي ) ( August 12, 1845 – June 22, 1885 ) was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan who, on June 29, 1881, proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith.

In 1881, Muhammad Ahmad Abdullah, a Muslim religious leader, proclaimed himself the Mahdi (" expected one ") and began a holy war to unify the tribes of Western and Central Sudan, including Equatoria.

* Ernesto Buonaiuti ( 1881 – 1946 ), who as a scholar of the history of Christianity and of religious philosophy was one of the most important sailors on the modernist current

Wahta Mohawk Territory was founded in 1881 when a group of Mohawks moved from the community of Kanesatake, Quebec because of political and religious strife.

The religious needs of non conformists were also met in the district, including the Rehoboth Mission on the corner of Waterloo Road and Springfield Road which was demolished in the 1970s, although its Sunday School, built in 1881 on the corner of Springfield Road and Crowther Street still remains and was for a time used as a community centre for the district.

They sealed their union in a common law marriage in Brighton, and later through an Eastern Orthodox religious ceremony in London ( November 1881 ).

Schönerer developed a political philosophy that featured elements of a violent racial antisemitism disregarding religious affiliations, especially upon the immigration of Jewish refugees during the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire from 1881 onwards.

Whitmer stated his religious views in three publications: A Proclamation published March 24, 1881, An Address To Believers in the Book of Mormon published April 1887, and An Address to All Believers in Christ also published April 1887.

* Stephen Henry Hobhouse ( 1881 – 1961 ) British peace activist, prison reformer, and religious writer

From 14 November 1881 to 30 January 1882 he was minister of education and worship in Gambetta's short-lived cabinet, and in 1881 he created a great sensation by a lecture on modern Catholicism, delivered in a Paris theatre, in which he poured ridicule on the fables and follies of the chief religious tracts and handbooks that circulated especially in the south of France.

From 1881 to 1884, his activity in Tunisia so raised the prestige of France that it drew from Gambetta the celebrated declaration, L ' Anticléricalisme n ' est pas un article d ' exportation, and led to the exemption of Algeria from the application of the decrees concerning the religious orders.

* Kingdom of Heaven, the name of a communal religious group led by William W. Davies near Walla Walla, Washington from 1867 to 1881

Mordecai Kaplan ( 1881 – 1983 ), one of the great rabbis of the 20th century and the founder of the Jewish reconstructionism movement., was an early advocate for religious naturalism.

From 1881 he also had a religious review, published twice monthly, and a publication committee installed at his house published many books.

Veselin Čajkanović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Веселин Чајкановић ; 1881, Belgrade-1946 ) was a Serbian classical scholar, religious history scholar, and Greek and Latin translator.

Taking into consideration the island's commercial boom, with prospects of Tarangnan as a trading center and its religious vigilance over Dapdap, on June 21, 1881, Gov.

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.

In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader of the reform faction of his Republican party ( the " GOP ").

* April 14 – Ernest Bevin, British labour leader, politician, and statesman ( b. 1881 )

** Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan ( b. 1881 )

After returning to Hampton as a teacher, in 1881 he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

In 1881, the Hampton president Samuel C. Armstrong recommended Washington to become the first leader of Tuskegee Institute, the new normal school ( teachers ' college ) in Alabama.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

The " Countess von Leon ", the widow of Bernhard Müller, a leader of a small 19th century Utopian group, spent her last years in Hot Springs, where she died in 1881.

* April 9-James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader ( b. 1881 ) ( stabbed in fight )

A leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction, he was twice premier ( 1880 – 1881 and 1883 – 1885 ).

On election ( 31 January 1881 ), he rushed to the House of Commons, made his maiden speech next day amid stormy scenes following the arrest of Michael Davitt, then a Land League leader, and was ejected from the Commons all on the same evening.

Väinö Tanner ( 12 March 1881, Helsinki – 19 April 1966 ) was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader in the cooperative movement in Finland.

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ( November 6, 1841 – April 16, 1915 ) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911.

* James A. Garfield: U. S. House of Representatives leader ; less radical than others ; U. S. President 1881.

Ernest Bevin ( 9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951 ) was a British trade union leader and Labour politician.

Robert James Manion, PC, MC ( November 19, 1881, Pembroke, Ontario-July 2, 1943, Ottawa ) was leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 until 1940.

Enver Pasha ( Ottoman Turkish:, ) or Ismail Enver Pasha (,, born Ismail Enver ) < span dir =" ltr ">( November 22, 1881 – August 4, 1922 )</ span > was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution.

In opposition to this process, the military leader Mustafa Kemal ( 1881 – 1938 ), in command of the growing Turkish national movement whose roots lay partly in the Young Turks, organized the 1919 – 1923 Turkish War of Independence.

The new Prime Minister, Christian Selmer, was not such a leader and force in the Council, and Sverdrup was ready for the next move, which should constitutionally have been taken in 1881.

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 President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

Interested in the work of Swiss psychologist Ludwig Binswanger ( 1881 – 1966 ), Foucault aided a young woman and family friend named Jacqueline Verdeaux in translating his works into French.

The disease is named after the British ophthalmologist Waren Tay, who in 1881 first described a symptomatic red spot on the retina of the eye, and after the American neurologist Bernard Sachs of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, who described in 1887 the cellular changes of Tay – Sachs disease and noted an increased disease prevalence in the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish population.

It was named for James A. Garfield, President of the United States in 1881.

Residents were growing weary of being referred to as a train station so in 1881, after researching post offices in the county, Adam Brubaker found only one named Denver.

The post office was opened on December 10, 1881, having been named by the Sayre family whose ancestors lived in Racine, Ohio.

* 1881 Abilene is established and named after Abilene, Kansas.

The county commission first met on August 29, 1881, and named Plankinton the county seat, an act which was ratified by voters in November 1882.

Wells County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named after Edward Payson Wells, a Jamestown banker, early promoter of the James River Valley, and member of the legislature in 1881.

It was named for Lt. Samuel A. Cherry, an Army officer who was stationed at Fort Niobrara and who had been killed in South Dakota in 1881.

Established in 1881, it was named for the General Custer Mine, where gold was discovered five years earlier ( shortly after Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in eastern Montana ).

Dolores County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 19, 1881, from the western portions of Ouray County, and was named for the Dolores River, which heads up in the county and passes through the county in the Dolores Canyon.

The community was named for a tributary of the Kobuk River, which was named for Dr. James M. Ambler, who died of starvation after his ship was trapped in the Arctic ice in 1881.

The elephant, named Lucy, was a tourist attraction built in 1881 to lure potential land buyers to South Atlantic City ( now called Margate ), a small town south of Atlantic City.

Holbrook was founded in 1881 or 1882, when the railroad was built, and named to honor the first chief engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.

In 1881 the Texas and St. Louis Railroad laid out the town of Rector about two miles to the south of an existing settlement named Scatterville, and the population of Scatterville gradually migrated to the new and booming town.

The post office came in 1881 and named the place Hamptonville, after William R. Hampton, its first postmaster.

The town of Austell is named for General Alfred Austell ( 1814 – 1881 ), founder of the Atlanta National Bank ( later Wachovia ), in recognition of his efforts to bring major railways to the South.

After considering the names Kent, Carlyle, and Gardner, for the governor of Massachusetts, it was decided to name named the town for Bloomington banker, lawyer, and land developer Asahel Gridley ( 1810 – 1881 ).

Griffin is a town in Bethel Township, Posey County, Indiana, United States, which was incorporated in 1881 and named after Samuel Griffin.

Hubbard was incorporated on November 1, 1881, and was named for Judge Nathaniel M. Hubbard, railroad attorney.