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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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* [[February]] – The journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' is first published in the United States, with financial backing from [[Thomas Edison]].
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* [[February 2]] - The first successful shipment of frozen [[mutton]] from Australia arrives in London, aboard the SS ''Strathleven''.
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* [[April 18]] – [[1880 United Kingdom general election]]: [[William Ewart Gladstone]] defeats [[Benjamin Disraeli]], to become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] for the second time.<ref>http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/PrimeMinisters.htm</ref>
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* [[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).
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* [[June 29]] – France annexes [[Tahiti]].
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* [[July 22]] – [[Abdur Rahman Khan]] becomes [[Emir of Afghanistan]].
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* [[July 27]] – [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] – [[Battle of Maiwand]]: Afghan troops under Ayub Khan defeat British and Indian forces, under Brigadier General George Burrows.
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* [[October 1]]  – [[German]] company ''[[Munich Re]]'' is founded in [[Munich]].
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* [[November 2]] – [[U.S. presidential election, 1880]]: [[James Garfield]] defeats [[Winfield S. Hancock]].
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* [[December 30]] – The [[South African Republic|Transvaal]] becomes a republic, and [[Paul Kruger]] becomes its first president.
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* [[Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza]] signs a treaty of protection with the chief of the large [[Teke people|Teke]] tribe, and begins to establish a French [[protectorate]] on the north bank of the [[Congo River]].
 
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Latest revision as of 19:08, 8 November 2021

1870 < 1871 < 1872 < 1873 < 1874 < 1875 < 1876 <1877 < 1878 < 1879 < 1880 > 1881 > 1882 > 1883 > 1884 > 1885 > 1886 > 1887 > 1888 > 1889 > 1890

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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.
Government changes in the UK and US

By 1880, the UK was sending over 6,500 tons of opium every year to China.[1]

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Victorian era18401901

 

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Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Douglas MacArthur26 January 1880Arkansas
Little Rock
5 April 1964Soldier
William Clayton7 February 1880Mississippi
Tupelo
8 February 1966Businessperson
Samuel Hoare24 February 1880London
United Kingdom
7 May 1959Diplomat
Spook
Politician
Ivar Kreuger2 March 1880Sweden
Kalmar
1932BusinesspersonSwedish match tycoon who was shot dead in a Paris hotel in 1932
Walter Guinness29 March 18806 November 1944Politician
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 Oppenheimer22 May 188025 November 1957
Oswald Spengler29 May 18808 May 1936Historian
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880United States
Montana
Missoula County
18 May 1973Politician
Pacifist
US Representative who voted against entry into BOTH WW1 and WW2, in 1941 as the sole member of Congress.
Robert McCormick30 July 1880Chicago
Illinois
1 April 1955Soldier
Lawyer
Media executive
H.L. Mencken12 September 188029 January 1956Journalist
Ralph Flanders28 September 1880Vermont
Barnet
19 February 1970Politician
Central banker
Businessperson
Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Juan March4 October 1880Majorca10 March 1962Banker
Criminal
Deep politician
Spanish business magnate, arms and tobacco smuggler, banker and deep politician.
George Marshall31 December 1880Pennsylvania
Uniontown
16 October 1959Politician
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