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EVENTS AND TRENDS
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
Phonograph
s 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.
Science
Heinrich Hertz
discovers the
Photoelectric Effect
Michelson-Morley Experiment
, which suggested that the
Speed Of Light
is invariant
James-Lange Theory
of
Emotion
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.
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.
PEOPLE
The last surviving person born in the 1880s,
María Capovilla
, died on
August 27
,
2006
.
World Leaders
Emperor
Franz Josef
(
Austria-Hungary
)
Prime Min Sir
John A. Macdonald
(
Canada
)
Guangxu Emperor
(
China
)
Emperor
Wilhelm I
(
German Empire
)
Emperor
Wilhelm II
(
German Empire
)
Chancellor
Otto Von Bismarck
(
German Empire
)
King
Umberto I
(
Italy
)
Pope Leo XIII
Emperor
Meiji
(
Japan
)
General
Porfirio Díaz
(
Mexico
)
Czar
Alexander II
(
Russia
)
King
Alfonso XII
(
Spain
)
Queen - Empress
Victoria
(
United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
)
Prime Min
William Ewart Gladstone
(
United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
)
Prime Min
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
(
United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
) President James Garfield (United States)
President
Rutherford B. Hayes
(
United States
)
President
Chester A. Arthur
(
United States
)
President
Grover Cleveland
(
United States
)
Nasser-al-Din Shah
of
Qajar Dynasty
(
Persia
)
Emperor
Pedro II
(
Brazil
)
