1880s

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Millennia:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

1 Events and Trends

[edit] Events and Trends

[edit] Technology

Development and commercial production of electric lighting
Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
First steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded 16 February 1880, New York, N.Y.
Construction begins on the Panama Canal by the French. This is the first attempt to build the Canal.
Lewis Ticehurst invented the drinking straw

[edit] Science

Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect
Michelson-Morley experiment, which suggested that the speed of light is invariant
James-Lange theory of emotion

[edit] Literature and Arts

Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov.
Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published.
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale.

[edit] Other

Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami
About 300,000 Swedes emigrate to the United States
A major step in Seventh-day Adventist's understanding of Righteousness by Faith occurred in 1888.