With profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his concert and lecture agency, he bought property along the Strand in 1880 with frontage onto the Thames Embankment, where he built the Savoy Theatre in 1881.

Swan first demonstrated the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, but he did not receive a patent until 27 November 1880 ( patent No. 4933 ) after improvement to the original lamp.

His house ( in Gateshead, England ) was the first in the world lit by a lightbulb, and the world's first electric-light illumination in a public building was for a lecture Swan gave in 1880.

The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880.

The house was built in 1880 and decorated by Mary Ann Tillson, who happened to attend Oscar Wilde's lecture in Woodstock, and was influenced by it.

When the Vrije Universiteit started in 1880, it hired some rooms in the Scottish Missionary Church ( today a theatre called De Kleine Komedie ) and used them as lecture rooms.

A " nearly perfect " residence is how Sir Frederick Weld, Governor of the Straits Settlements and official resident there from 1880 to 1887, described it in a lecture at the Royal Colonial Institute in London.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

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.

Another production of the original version, some rehearsals of which Ibsen attended, opened on 3 March 1880 at the Residenz Theatre in Munich.

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.

However, difficulties in South Africa ( epitomised by the defeat of the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana ), as well as Afghanistan, weakened his government and led to his party's defeat in the 1880 election.

Image: The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil. JPG | The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1880, National Gallery of Art

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

Upon graduation he enrolled ( autumn 1880 ) at the University of Königsberg, the " Albertina ".

British and Afghan National Army | allied forces at Kandahar after the 1880 Battle of Kandahar.

Ayub Khan, who had been serving as governor of Herat, rose in revolt, defeated a British detachment at the Battle of Maiwand in July 1880 and besieged Kandahar.

Although the family always used the name Eiffel, Gustave's name was registered at birth as Bönickhausen, and was not formally changed to Eiffel until 1880.

Spanish emerald and gold pendant at Victoria and Albert MuseumEnamelled gold, amethyst and pearl pendant, about 1880, Pasquale Novissimo ( 1844 – 1914 ), V & A Museum number M. 36-1928

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.

Wells continued at Morley's Academy until 1880.

From 1880 to 1883, Wells had an unhappy apprenticeship as a draper at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, Hyde's.

His father died in 1880, and his mother in 1884, leaving Hoover an orphan at the age of nine.

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

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After inquiring at a number of these, Kano was referred to Fukuda Hachinosuke ( c. 1828 – 1880 ), a teacher of the of jujutsu, who had a small nine mat dojo where he taught five students.

* 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

Benjamin Peirce (; April 4, 1809, Salem, Massachusetts – October 6, 1880, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years.

Righteous Discontent: The Woman ’ s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880 – 1920 ( Harvard UP, 1993 )

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1880 and practiced law from 1880 to 1897 in partnership with his cousin, Francis Cabot Lowell, with whom he wrote Transfer of Stock in Corporations, which appeared in 1884.

* Sever Hall, Harvard University ( 1880 ), brickwork, with molded brick string courses with turrets embedded in the walls, strips of windows, under a huge hipped roof as well as Austin Hall ( Harvard University ) ( 1882 – 1884 ) which followed a more traditional Richardson motif.

Harvard University Press published his Ph. D. thesis in 1933, as The French International Accounts, 1880 – 1913.

He graduated at Harvard University in 1870, and took a post-graduate course in philosophy there in 1874-1876 ; studied classical philology at Leipzig and Göttingen in 1876-1877 ; was tutor in Latin at Harvard from 1877 to 1880, and succeeding Tracy Peck as professor of Latin in Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago.

In 1880, he became assistant in charge of the collection of birds and mammals in the Boston Society of Natural History, and in 1885 became curator of mammals and birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he served until his death, though after 1900 he cared for birds alone, and he left his position at the Boston Society of Natural History in 1887.

1880, A. M. 1883 ( 1893 – 1901 ), Nathan Chipman Hamblin, Harvard B. A.

In 1880 Lanman moved to Harvard University where he was the first to preside over the department of Indo-Iranian Languages, which became the department of Indic Philology in 1902, and ultimately became the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 1951.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1880.

" Hart told the survivors of the Harvard Class of 1880 that editing the cyclopedia " will be a very interesting and agreeable service to the memory of our great classmate.

Four years later, at a party celebrating graduation of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt from Harvard University, he met Sara Delano ; they were married on October 7, 1880 and became parents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

" Polly Wolly Doodle " is a song first published in a Harvard student songbook in 1880.

Bangs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and studied at Harvard from 1880 to 1884.

After the war, he took to language studies at Harvard ( bachelor's degree, 1874 ), Leipzig, Göttingen, and Strasbourg, receiving his Ph. D at the last institution in 1880.

From 1869 to 1879 he was professor of Hebrew in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ( first in Greenville, South Carolina, and after 1877 in Louisville, Kentucky ), and in 1880 he became professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at Harvard University, where until 1903 he was also Dexter lecturer on biblical literature.

William Purdom ( 10 April 1880 – 7 November 1921 ) was a British plant explorer sent by Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to the northern provinces of China in 1909.

Wells graduated from Harvard in 1877 and took his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1880.