{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 |} ==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 phonographs and phonograph recordings. * First steel frame construction skyscraper ===Science=== * Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect * Michelson-Morley experiment, showing that the speed of light is invariant * James-Lange theory of emotion ===War, peace and politics=== * First Boer War * The New Imperialism ===Other=== * Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami * About 300,000 Sweden emigrate to the United States ==People== ===World Leaders=== * Emperor Franz Josef of Austria (Austria-Hungary) * Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada) * Guangxu Emperor (China) * Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (Germany) * Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (Germany) * Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Germany) * King Umberto I of Italy (Italy) * Pope Leo XIII * Emperor Emperor Meiji of Japan (Japan) * Emperor Alexander II of Russia (Russia) * Emperor Alexander III of Russia (Russia) * Queen - Empress Victoria of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (United Kingdom) * President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States) * President Chester A. Arthur (United States) * President Grover Cleveland (United States) 1880s
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1880s
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 |} ==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 phonographs and phonograph recordings. * First steel frame construction skyscraper ===Science=== * Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect * Michelson-Morley experiment, showing that the speed of light is invariant * James-Lange theory of emotion ===War, peace and politics=== * First Boer War * The New Imperialism ===Other=== * Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami * About 300,000 Sweden emigrate to the United States ==People== ===World Leaders=== * Emperor Franz Josef of Austria (Austria-Hungary) * Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada) * Guangxu Emperor (China) * Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (Germany) * Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (Germany) * Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Germany) * King Umberto I of Italy (Italy) * Pope Leo XIII * Emperor Emperor Meiji of Japan (Japan) * Emperor Alexander II of Russia (Russia) * Emperor Alexander III of Russia (Russia) * Queen - Empress Victoria of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom) * Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (United Kingdom) * President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States) * President Chester A. Arthur (United States) * President Grover Cleveland (United States) 1880s
1880s
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