1880

( 1880s: ) 1880
( 1880s: ) 1880
	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

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

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.

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.

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

Group	Type	Description
University of Southern California	Military ranks Space-grant Sea-grant	Private research university in Los Angeles, California
National Bank of Romania
Institut Le Rosey		Very posh Swiss boarding school
Dresser Industries	Commercial	Texas oil an gas sector supplier

==A Quotation==

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
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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