Since 1881, pitchers had pitched within a " box " whose front line was from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

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.

When Chilean troops occupied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain Patricio Lynch, whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile.

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

Located out of New York, NY, it is unclear when this company started producing crayons but based on a known ad from 1881, they clearly offered wax crayons in boxes of 6, 12, and 18 colors. Surviving boxes from Franklin Mfg Co.

Nicholas and Charlotte were third cousins, as they were both great-great-grandchildren of Frederick William I of Prussia. Emperor Alexander II, born 17 April 1818, successor of father Nicholas I, assassinated 13 March 1881, married 1841, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine

* 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 )

His La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, or Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, which he displayed at the sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881, was probably his most controversial piece ; some critics decried what they thought its " appalling ugliness " while others saw in it a " blossoming ".

In 1881, Alger informally adopted Charlie Davis, a street boy, and another, John Downie, in 1883 ; they lived in Alger's apartment.

On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was maimed in an assassination attempt by the outlaw Cowboys, and on March 18, 1882, they assassinated Morgan Earp.

Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile ( 1874 – 1955 ); Aline ( 1877 – 1897 ); Clovis ( 1879 – 1900 ); Jean René ( 1881 – 1961 ); and Paul Rollon ( 1883 – 1961 ).

Before 1881, when Charles Daniel Dance wrote his Chapters From a Guianese Log-book, he noticed, The children all talked a Dutch patois besides the Arawak Indian tongue ; and with a Dutch teacher to instruct them, it is not difficult to conceive the manner in which they read their English lessons.

In 1881, they resubmitted their petition to Annual Conference.

No dates are available listing terms of office for these mayors, but it is likely they served from 1870 to 1881.

Despite crossing a county border, they also shared a school district and residents considered the whole area as " Bloomingdale " until about 1881 when a Post Office named Butler was designated.

He married Beulah Smith ( 1881 – 1945 ) in 1919, and they had two sons-Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne ( 1921 – 2001 ) and John Bennett Cockayne ( 1923 – 1996 ).

Selwyn College began to use its Arms long before an official grant by the College of Arms ( they are displayed above the main gateway, built in 1881, and on the Common Seal, first used in 1882 ).

The Cottage Park summer residents built a club house in 1881 where they had their meals, entertainment and social life.

The Imps, as they are more commonly known, merged with the original Rothwell Band ( founded 1881 ) in the 1990s.

From 1881 onwards they cherished the idea of an independent South Africa.

By contrast an anonymous 1881 review in the Peoria Journal said: “ they have lost the wild rhythms, the barbaric melody, the passion …. hey smack of the North ….” Some fifty years later, Zora Neale Hurston in her 1938 book The Sanctified Church criticized Fisk singers, and similar groups at Tuskegee and Hampton, as using a " Glee Club style " that was " full of musicians ' tricks " not to be found in the original Negro spirituals, urging readers to visit an " unfashionable Negro church " to experience real Negro spirituals.

The two last-named series were being produced simultaneously until 1881, and no sooner had they been completed than Grosart began the “ Huth Library ,” so called from the bibliophile Henry Huth, who possessed the originals of many of the reprints.

The scene of Bourbaki's army being disarmed when they crossed the Swiss borders is the subject of a panoramic painting done in 1881 by Edouard Castres.

Floods forced the complete closure of the Spalding to Bourn line from 9 October 1880 until 1 February 1881, this was a Midland & Eastern line worked by the GNR, and the GNR found themselves paying the lease on a line they could derive no revenue from ; And worst of all, Sutton Bridge Docks opened on 14 May 1881, into which the GNR had invested £ 55, 000, but within a few days the docks began to subside due to being built on unstable ground.

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

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.

' 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 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.

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.

In 1881 the regiment amalgamated with the 81st ( Loyal Lincoln Volunteers ) Regiment of Foot to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as part of the Childers Reforms.

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

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.

* 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first " upside-up " year — i. e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down — since 1881.

In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Principality of Romania, Bucharest became the new nation's capital ; in 1881, it became the political centre of the newly-proclaimed Kingdom of Romania under Carol I.

A descendant of variety, ( c. 1860s – 1881 ), vaudeville was distinguished from the earlier form by its mixed-gender audience, usually alcohol-free halls, and often slavish devotion to inculcating favor among members of the middle class.

This Glasgow scientist seems to have been the first to suggest the usage of a manometric gas flame for optical transmission, demonstrated at a meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society ; " The History of selenium and its action in the Bell Photophone, with description of recently designed form ", Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow No. 13, 1881, * * * Moser, J.

In November 1881, the conservatives met and formally split from the Church of the Brethren to form the Old German Baptist Brethren.

In 1881, Wetmore and its neighbor county to the south, Cragin County, were combined to form Aurora County.

In 1881, parts of Warren County, Franklin County, and Granville County were combined to form Vance County.

Finally, in 1881 the eastern half of the county's remaining territory was combined with part of Wake County to form Durham County.

Finally, in 1881, parts of Granville County, Franklin County, and Warren County were combined to form Vance County.

* 1881 Franklin County loses land to help form Vance County

* Telephone broadcasting ( 1881 – 1932 ): the earliest form of electronic broadcasting ( not counting data services offered by stock telegraph companies from 1867, if ticker-tapes are excluded from the definition ).

Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to form Woolwich Township ( March 7, 1767 ), Franklin Township ( January 27, 1820 ), Spicer Township ( March 13, 1844 ; now Harrison Township ), Mantua Township ( February 23, 1853 ), East Greenwich Township ( February 10, 1881 ) and Paulsboro ( March 2, 1904 ).

Portions of the township were taken to form East Greenwich Township ( February 10, 1881 ) and Pitman ( May 24, 1905 ).

Portions of the township were taken to form Neptune City ( October 4, 1881 ), Bradley Beach ( March 13, 1893 ) and Ocean Grove ( April 5, 1920, until it was found unconstitutional and restored to Neptune Township as of June 16, 1921 ).

In 1881 he developed and patented a process for squeezing nitro-cellulose through holes to form conducting fibres.

A one-foot length was cut off and hammered onto the longer piece to form a cross, and the words " Billy The Kid ( Bonney ) July 14, 1881 " were placed on the horizontal crosspiece.

With this aim in mind, Italy joined the German-Austrian Alliance to form the Triple Alliance, partly in anger at the French seizure of Tunisia in 1881, which many Italians had seen as a potential colony, partly to guarantee herself support in case of foreign aggression: the main alliance compelled any signatory country to support the other parties if two other countries attacked.

Graduates still very often had to leave Wales to work, but Betws-y-Coed became a popular centre for artists, and its artist's colony helped form the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1881.

Gambetta was unwillingly asked by Grévy on 24 November 1881 to form a ministry, known as Le Grand Ministère.

The 1881 SLP Convention in New York saw some of the party's anarchist members and one New York section split from the party to form a new party called the Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party, as part of an International Workingman's Association.

Sugar refiners in the area were joined in by Henry Tate in 1877 and Abram Lyle in 1881, whose companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle.

* Recherches sur l ' histoire et la littérature de l ' Espagne pendant le moyen âge ( 2 vols., 1849 ; 2nd and 3rd ed., completely recast in 1860 and 1881 ) form a supplement to his Histoire des Mussulmans, in which he exposes the many tricks and falsehoods of the monks in their chronicles, and effectively demolishes a good part of the Cid legends.

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.