Latimer had received a patent in January 1881 for the " Process of Manufacturing Carbons ", an improved method for the production of carbon filaments for lightbulbs.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

He had already received the highest decoration in France, the Légion d ' honneur, when he visited an international exhibition in Paris in 1881.

The ceremonial opera Libuše was received with thunderous applause for the composer ; by this time ( 1881 ) the disputes around his music had declined, and the public was ready to honour him as the founder of Czech music.

in 1889, and a Baronet in 1891 ; was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1874 to 1875, and of the Asiatic Society from 1878 to 1881 ; and received honorary degrees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.

The college built new premises in White Street at a cost of £ 16, 000 ( contributions were received from Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales ) and were opened in 1881.

After her death ( 1824 ), her Essai sur l ' éducation des femmes was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat, published her Mémoires ( 3 vols., Paris, 1879 – 80 ), which followed by some correspondence with her son ( 2 vols., 1881 ), that justice could be done to her literary talent.

In 1881 Burne-Jones received an honorary degree from Oxford, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1882.

His subsequent works of the same kind — Uarda ( 1877 ), Homo sum ( 1878 ), Die Schwestern ( 1880 ), Der Kaiser ( 1881 ), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of Hadrian, Serapis ( 1885 ), Die Nilbraut ( 1887 ), and Kleopatra ( 1894 ), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists.

In 1881, he invented the " théâtrophone ", a system of telephonic transmission where listeners received a separate channel for each ear, enabling stereophonic perception of the actors on a set ; it was this invention which gave the first stereo transmission of opera performances, over a distance of 2 miles ( 3 km ) in 1881.

In 1881 Reinkens visited England, and received Holy Communion more than once with bishops, clergy and laity of the Church of England, and in 1894 he defended the validity of Anglican orders against his co-religionists, the Old Catholics of the Netherlands who later recognised the orders.

He later received a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1881 from Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury who cited Bullinger's " eminent service in the Church in the department of Biblical criticism.

He was appointed Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1881 and received the honorary freedom of the City of Canterbury in 1921.

In 1889, Jacob Myers of Rochester, New York received a patent for a voting machine that was based on Beranek's 1881 machine.

In 1881, he broke with Kotek after he refused to play the concerto, believing it was poorly received and would do damage to his budding career.

In 1881 he received from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where Sylvester was then professor of mathematics, an invitation

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón ( 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958 ) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.

Smith was born in Albany, New York, and received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University in 1881, followed by an MD degree from Albany Medical College in 1883.

Residents of the town and students at the two schools believe that the town received its name in honor of Alfred the Great, king of the Saxons, although the first documented occurrence of this connection was in 1881, 73 years after the first record of the name being used.

A student at Botoşani's Laurian gymnasium and high school after 1881, the young Iorga received top honors, and, beginning 1883, began tutoring some of his colleagues to increase his family's main revenue ( according to Iorga, a " miserable pension of pittance ").

In January 1881 Fisher received news of his appointment to the new ironclad battleship.

' In 1881, D. A. Thomas rescued a boy who fell through the ice on Hirwaun Pond, Aberdare, an act for which he received an award from the Humane Society.

The opera reached its hundredth performance at the Salle Favart on the 15 December 1881, but the fire at the Opéra-Comique in 1887 destroyed the orchestral parts, and it was not seen again in Paris until 1893 at the Salle de la Renaissance du Théâtre-Lyrique when it received 20 performances.

Johannes Brahms wrote his Academic Festival Overture to thank the university for an honorary doctorate awarded in 1881.

He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881.

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

In 1881 Alfonso refused to sanction a law by which the ministers were to remain in office for a fixed term of 18 months.

* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

The most successful was the American Association ( 1881 – 1891 ), sometimes called the " beer and whiskey league " for its tolerance of the sale of alcoholic beverages to spectators.

* BS 1881: 201 Methods of Testing Concrete Part 201: Guide to the Use of Non-Destructive Methods of Test for Hardened Concrete

In 1881 the Roman Catholic mass was celebrated in Bodmin for the first time since 1539.

From 1881 through 1888 Diego Garcia was the location of two coaling stations for steam ships crossing the Indian Ocean.

After the affair between David and Katrine became known, David Longfield's father ( Beatty's grandfather ), David Vandeleur Beatty ( 1815 – 1881 ), arranged for his son to be posted to India in the hope that the scandalous relationship might end.

In 1881 he left for the University of Vienna to complete his mathematics studies under the supervision of Leo Königsberger ( a former student of Weierstrass ).

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

The first time was the work of the ninth Baron Stanley of Alderley for the Hakluyt Society in 1881.

In 1881, he was appointed Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.

He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works ( which came to be known as the Savoy Operas ) and founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.

The idea that Q1 is not riddled with error but is instead eminently fit for the stage has led to at least 28 different Q1 productions since 1881.

Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the Variation de la Reine du jour from his ballet La Nuit et le Jour ( 1881 ), the elaborate entr ' acte composed for Albert Zabel from his ballet Roxana ( 1878 ), and numerous passages found in his score for the ballet La Bayadère, which in some passages were used to represent a veena which was used on stage as a prop.

She was used for harbour service from 1881, as a barracks from 1905, was renamed HMS Calcutta in 1909, HMS Fisgard II in 1915, and was sold in 1932.

Credit for popularising the term may be given to Arnold Toynbee, whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it.

His drawing of ' An unequal match ', published in Punch on 8 October 1881, depicted a police officer fighting a criminal with only a ' baton ' for protection, trying to put a point across to the public that policing methods needed to be changed.

Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill health for the last 15 months of his life.

Important for Kashubian literature was Xążeczka dlo Kaszebov by Doctor Florian Ceynowa ( 1817 – 1881 ).

The city remained in Ottoman hands until Thessaly became part of the independent Greek kingdom in 1881, except for a period where Ottoman forces re-occupied it during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

The history of the rugby ground begins with the first stands appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881 – 1882.

1881 – 2 saw the first stands for spectators ; they held 300 spectators and cost GB £ 50.