1881 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1881?
- January 25, 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- February 13, 1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
- March 12, 1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
- March 13, 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
- March 26, 1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
- March 27, 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
- April 14, 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- April 16, 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- May 21, 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- June 28, 1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
- July 1, 1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- July 2, 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
- July 4, 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- July 23, 1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- September 19, 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- September 20, 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
- October 26, 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
- November 19, 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- November 29, 1881 – Spokan Falls (today the city of Spokane, Washington) is officially incorporated as a city.
- December 4, 1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
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