In 1881, when the 42nd amalgamated with the 73rd Regiment of Foot, the new regiment was named " The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders )".

Infantry regiment of the Chilean Army, formed in Lurín District | Lurín, south of Lima, in January 1881

The South Staffordshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 38th ( 1st Staffordshire ) Regiment of Foot and the 80th ( Staffordshire Volunteers ) Regiment of Foot.

The regiment was formed as part of the Childers Reforms on July 1, 1881 by the amalgamation of the 38th and 80th regiments of foot, which became the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the regiment.

The 76th was linked in 1881 with the regiment at that time titled 33rd ( Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment, whose training depot they shared in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, due to the Childers Reforms ( a continuation of the Cardwell's Reforms of the armed forces ) to form the 2nd Battalion of the regiment.

The 8th ( King's ) Regiment of Foot, also referred to diminutively as the 8th Foot and the King's, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1685 and retitled the King's ( Liverpool Regiment ) on 1 July 1881.

The Manchester Regiment was a regiment of the British army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 63rd Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot.

The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Glencorse from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment.

The 96th Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army from 1798 to 1881, when it became the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment.

On 1 July 1881, in accordance with the Childers Reforms of the army, the regiment merged with the 63rd Regiment of Foot to form the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment.

In 1881, under the Childers Reforms when regimental numbers were abolished the regiment became The Royal Fusiliers ( City of London Regiment ).

The Black Watch ( Royal Highland Regiment ) was a Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 ( as the Royal Highland Regiment ( The Black Watch )) to 2006.

' Black Watch ' was originally just a nickname for the 42nd ( Royal Highland ) Regiment of Foot, but was used more and more so that, in 1881, when the 42nd amalgamated with the 73rd Regiment of Foot, the new regiment was named ' The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders )'.

The Connaught Rangers (" the Devil's Own ") was an Irish regiment of the British Army, formed by the amalgamation in 1881 of the 88th Regiment of Foot ( Connaught Rangers ) and the 94th Regiment of Foot.

They had deployed from Armagh to South Africa in 1877, where they had taken part in the Zulu War and in 1880 the first Boer War where in January 1881 Lance-Corporal James Murray of the regiment won a Victoria Cross.

First raised in 1741 in Scotland, the regiment saw service over a period of 140 years, before it was amalgamated with another regiment to become The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1881.

The Essex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army that saw active service from 1881 to 1958.

For history of the regiment prior to 1881 see:

The Welch Regiment ( or " The Welch ") was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1969.

The South Lancashire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales's Volunteers ) was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958.

The Black Watch was formed as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 when the 42nd ( Royal Highland ) Regiment of Foot ( The Black Watch ) was amalgamated with the 73rd ( Perthshire ) Regiment of Foot to form two battalions of the newly named the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ).

As part of the Childers Reforms, the 63rd and the 96th Regiments of Foot amalgamated in 1881 to form The Manchester Regiment.

Another local club, Padgate Excelsior amalgamated with Warrington in 1881 / 82 to form a representative town side.

The Black Watch was formed as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 when the Royal Highland Regiment ( The Black Watch ) was amalgamated with the 73rd ( Perthshire ) Foot to form two battalions of the newly named Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ).

In 1881, the 88th Regiment of Foot ( Connaught Rangers ) ( which formed the 1st Battalion ) and the 94th Regiment of Foot ( which formed the 2nd Battalion ) were amalgamated.

Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1881.

In 1881 they amalgamated to form the Border Regiment, a fearsome force of Cumbrians who fought in the Battle of Arnhem in 1944 and were well represented in the bitter war across Burma, as featured in the book Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser.

After the Childers reforms, the regiment amalgamated with the 61st ( South Gloucestershire ) Regiment of Foot to form the two-battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on 1 July 1881.

In 1881, under the Childers Reforms, the 83rd and 86th were amalgamated into a single regiment, named the Royal Irish Rifles.

The Brockville and Ottawa amalgamated in 1878 with the Canada Central Railway, which was absorbed by the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) in 1881.

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

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.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

Between 1881 when the club was opened, and 1889, the dam frequently sprang leaks and was patched, mostly with mud and straw.

" However, he did not begin his philanthropic work in all earnest until 1881, with the gift of a library to his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland.

He also compiled various vocabularies, including a Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña ( Paris, 1881 ), and prepared an edition of the Shepherd of Hermas, with the Latin version, in 1860.

* From Father to Son ( Liverpool, 1881, a dramatised version of his novel Fallen among Thieves written in 3 acts in cooperation with J. Palgrave Simpson ).

The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881.

In 1881, it signed a treaty with Argentina confirming Chilean sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan, but conceding all of oriental Patagonia, and a considerable fraction of the territory it had during colonial times.

Chile also temporarily resolved its border disputes with Argentina with the Puna de Atacama Lawsuit of 1899, the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina and the 1902 General Treaty of Arbitration.

" She studied privately with William Sartain, a friend of Eakins and a New York artist invited to Philadelphia to teach a group of art students, starting in 1881.

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.

In 1881, Italy lost in the competition with France to establish a colony in Tunis ( present-day Tunisia ).

In 1881, with pressure from his friend Antonin Proust, the French government awarded Manet the Légion d ' honneur.

He wrote two more autobiographies, with his last, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and covering events through and after the Civil War.

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.

A culmination of the Albanian National Awakening were the League of Prizren ( 1878 – 1881, with the backing of sultan Abdulhamid II ) and the League of Peja, but they were unsuccessful to an Albanian independence, which occurred only in 1912, through the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

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.

From 1881, he was able to try out his new orchestral works with the court orchestra of the Duke of Meiningen, whose conductor was Hans von Bülow.

Book first, together with some account of the life and acts of the Author, of his ancestors, and of his descendants, illustrated by a selection of characteristic anecdotes, as collected by their historian, Mevlānā Shemsu'd-dīn Ahmed el-Eflākī el -' Arifī, translated and the poetry versified by James W. Redhouse, London: 1881.

In 1881 Higaonna Kanryō returned from China after years of instruction with Ryu Ryu Ko and founded what would become Naha-te.

Although the " Arthur of romance " was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works ( as he was in Burne-Jones's The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881 – 1898 ), on other occasions he reverted back to his medieval status and is either marginalised or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter.

On 16 February 1881, the Light Infantry Battalion was disbanded with the abolition of the militia-based system.

The publication of their result in 1887, the null result, was the first clear demonstration that something was seriously wrong with the aether concept of that time ( after Michelson's first experiment in 1881 that wasn't fully conclusive ).