In the general election of 1880 Disraeli's Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone's Liberals, in large part owing to the uneven course of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

* 1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1964 )

So " between 1880 and 1890 " with the " perspective of an immanent revolution ," who was " opposed to the official workers ' movement, which was then in the process of formation ( general Social Democratisation ).

In 1880, the general conference included in the Discipline a broad statement which included, “ Temperance is a Christian virtue, Scripturally enjoined .” Due to the temperate stance of the church, the practice of Eucharist was altered — to this day, Methodist churches most commonly use grape juice symbolically during Communion rather than wine.

From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.

* April 5 – Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific during World War II ( b. 1880 )

* September 12 – Sugiyama Hajime, Japanese general ( b. 1880 )

* May 4 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general, politician, and astronomer ( b. 1880 )

* December 21 – Paul Hausser, German Waffen SS general ( b. 1880 )

* April 27 – Alessandro Guidoni, Italian air force general ( b. 1880 )

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace

In the opening sentence of his 1880 article Venn declared: " Schemes of diagrammatic representation have been so familiarly introduced into logical treatises during the last century or so, that many readers, even those who have made no professional study of logic, may be supposed to be acquainted with the general nation and object of such devices.

Chamberlain joined the Liberal denunciations of the Conservative Party's foreign policy in the 1880 general election, and Gladstone returned as Prime Minister with assistance from the NLF.

By 1880, a general store was established at that location, and its owner was community namesake Silas Rayl.

D. M. Bare's influence can be found in practically every aspect of town life: out of his general store in 1864, he developed a department store which became known as " the company store ;", now Roaring Spring Department Store, in 1867, he co-sponsored the construction of the first Methodist Church ; from 1868 to 1883, he served as one of the first postmasters, nominating the village's name change to Roaring Spring in 1868 ; he oversaw the creation of the town's first modern utilities, including the telephone system ( 1880 ), the water supply ( 1892 ), and electrical service ( 1892 ).

The city received its present name from the post office, which had officially changed its name from South Cottonwood Post Office to Murray Post Office in 1883, after the Civil War general, Eli Murray, territorial governor of Utah from 1880 to 1886.

The town was plotted in 1880 and named for former American Civil War Union general John Wilson Sprague.

As an expert on military fortifications, Cui eventually attained the academic status of professor in 1880 and the military rank of general in 1906.

Released from his duties as private secretary by the general election of 1880, he began to take a more active part in parliamentary affairs.

In 1880, Scottish surgeon William Macewen ( 1848 – 1924 ) reported on his use of orotracheal intubation as an alternative to tracheotomy to allow a patient with glottic edema to breathe, as well as in the setting of general anesthesia with chloroform.

His activities came to an abrupt end when the United Kingdom general election, 1880 was announced for April and he returned to fight it.

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.

The Liberals won a large majority in the 1880 election.

After the 1880 election, he formed his second ministry, which saw crises in Egypt ( culminating in the death of General Gordon in 1885 ), and in Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers.

In contrast to 1868 and 1880 when the Liberal campaign lasted several months, only three weeks separated the news of the dissolution and the election.

* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.

Garfield became the party's compromise nominee for the 1880 Presidential Election and successfully campaigned to defeat Democrat Winfield Hancock in the election.

The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the end of Reconstruction in Southern states carried out by the Republicans.

These states had voted solidly Democratic in every presidential election since 1880, and Roosevelt objected that they were given one-quarter of the delegates when they would contribute nothing to a Republican victory ( as it turned out, delegates from the former Confederate states supported Taft by a 5 to 1 margin ).

The Resumption Act was hotly debated during the 1880 presidential election, with most western politicians opposed to it.

In the November 2, 1880 election for Pima County sheriff, Democrat Shibell ran against Republican Bob Paul, who was expected to win.

Although Gladstone did not regard the NLF highly, he recognised the part it had played in winning the 1880 election, and was eager to reconcile Chamberlain and other Radicals to the mainly Whig cabinet.

In 1880, again a presidential election year, he once more lost narrowly, and he lost again in 1882 in his final race for Congress.

After the first election in fall 1879, county government was set up in St. Johns, though it was moved again in 1880, to Springerville ; in 1882 St. Johns again became the county seat, and it has remained so ever since.

In the 1880 presidential election, he received 308, 578 votes, compared to 4, 454, 416 for Republican James Garfield and 4, 444, 952 for Democrat Winfield Hancock.

A quarrel between Wade Hampton and one of his lieutenants — Johnson Hapgood — led to the defeat of Wade Hampton as governor in 1880 and the election of Hapgood.

Plimsoll was re-elected for Derby at the general election of 1880 by a great majority, but gave up his seat to William Vernon Harcourt, believing that the latter, as Home Secretary, could advance sailors ' interests more effectively than any private member.

After the Conservatives lost the 1880 election and Disraeli's death the year after, Salisbury emerged as Conservative leader in the House of Lords, with Sir Stafford Northcote leading the party in the Commons.

He resigned after an unfavourable election in 1880, but once more became member of the cantonal executive in 1885, and for 12 years had charge of the cantonal finances.

Soon after obtaining his law license, he won the Republican nomination to the general election for Dane County District Attorney and went on to win the seat in 1880.