1881 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1881?
- January 25, 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- February 24, 1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
- 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 27, 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
- April 11, 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- April 14, 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- April 18, 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
- May 21, 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
- June 13, 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
- June 28, 1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
- July 1, 1881 – The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 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 14, 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
- September 19, 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
- October 13, 1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
- 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.
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