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|image_caption=The Russian [[Okhrana]] is founded. The Tsarist secret police, notorious for its use of [[agents provocateurs]], killed maybe 26,000 people extra-judicially in its 37 years existence. | |image_caption=The Russian [[Okhrana]] is founded. The Tsarist secret police, notorious for its use of [[agents provocateurs]], killed maybe 26,000 people extra-judicially in its 37 years existence. | ||
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+ | By '''1880''', the UK was sending over 6,500 tons of opium every year to [[China]].<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/politics-profit-poppies-how-cia-turned-afghanistan-failed-narco-state</ref> | ||
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==Events== | ==Events== | ||
* [[February]] – The journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' is first published in the United States, with financial backing from [[Thomas Edison]]. | * [[February]] – The journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' is first published in the United States, with financial backing from [[Thomas Edison]]. |
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![]() The Russian Okhrana is founded. The Tsarist secret police, notorious for its use of agents provocateurs, killed maybe 26,000 people extra-judicially in its 37 years existence. |
By 1880, the UK was sending over 6,500 tons of opium every year to China.[1]
Events
- February – The journal Science is first published in the United States, with financial backing from Thomas Edison.
- February 2 - The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London, aboard the SS Strathleven.
- April 18 – 1880 United Kingdom general election: William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli, to become Prime Minister for the second time.[2]
- April 19 – The Prime Minister of Sweden, Louis De Geer, resigns over the defeat of a defense reform bill in the country's Riksdag; he is succeeded by Count Arvid Posse (1880–1883).
- June 29 – France annexes Tahiti.
- July 22 – Abdur Rahman Khan becomes Emir of Afghanistan.
- July 27 – Second Anglo-Afghan War – Battle of Maiwand: Afghan troops under Ayub Khan defeat British and Indian forces, under Brigadier General George Burrows.
- October 1 – German company Munich Re is founded in Munich.
- November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.
- December 30 – The Transvaal becomes a republic, and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.
Date unknown
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief of the large Teke tribe, and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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National Bank of Romania | ![]() | ||
Institut Le Rosey | Very posh Swiss boarding school | ||
Dresser Industries | ![]() | Commercial | Texas oil an gas sector supplier |
University of Southern California | ![]() | Military ranks Space-grant Sea-grant | Private research university in Los Angeles, California |
==A Quotation==
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Douglas MacArthur | 26 January 1880 | Arkansas Little Rock | 5 April 1964 | Soldier | |
William Clayton | 7 February 1880 | Mississippi Tupelo | 8 February 1966 | Businessperson | |
Samuel Hoare | 24 February 1880 | London United Kingdom | 7 May 1959 | Diplomat Spook Politician | |
Ivar Kreuger | 2 March 1880 | Sweden Kalmar | 1932 | Businessperson | Swedish match tycoon who was shot dead in a Paris hotel in 1932 |
Walter Guinness | 29 March 1880 | 6 November 1944 | Politician Businessperson | Lord Moyne. An Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. Was Minister of State in UN Mandate Palestine in 1944 when he was assassinated by members of Lehi | |
Ernest Oppenheimer | 22 May 1880 | 25 November 1957 | |||
Oswald Spengler | 29 May 1880 | 8 May 1936 | Historian | ||
Jeannette Rankin | 11 June 1880 | United States Montana Missoula County | 18 May 1973 | Politician Pacifist | US Representative who voted against entry into BOTH WW1 and WW2, in 1941 as the sole member of Congress. |
Robert McCormick | 30 July 1880 | Chicago Illinois | 1 April 1955 | Soldier Lawyer Media executive | |
H.L. Mencken | 12 September 1880 | 29 January 1956 | Journalist | ||
Ralph Flanders | 28 September 1880 | Vermont Barnet | 19 February 1970 | Politician Central banker Businessperson | Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s. |
Juan March | 4 October 1880 | Majorca | 10 March 1962 | Banker Criminal Deep politician | Spanish business magnate, arms and tobacco smuggler, banker and deep politician. |
George Marshall | 31 December 1880 | Pennsylvania Uniontown | 16 October 1959 | Politician |
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