1880
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1880 (1880) is a leap year starting on Thursday according to the Christian era (Gregorian calendar). Meiji 13 years.
Other calendars
Zodiac: Yang Metal Dragon
Japan (dates match)
Meiji 13
2540 imperial year
Qing: November 19, 5th year of Guangxu-December 1, 1st, 6th year of Guangxu
Korea
Mr. Lee, Gojong of Korea, 17 years
Dangun 4213
Nguyen Dynasty (Vietnam)
November 19, 32 --Tokutoku December 1, 1933
Buddhist calendar: 2422-2423
Islamic calendar: January 18, 1297-January 28, 1298
Jewish calendar: April 17, 5640-April 29, 5641
Modified Julian Day (MJD): 7715 --8080
Lilian Date (LD): 108556 --108921
Calendar
Events
January
January 1-Panama Canal begins construction (abandoned in 1889)
January 12-Established Kyosai 500 Famous Companies (later Yasuda Life) (Japan's first life insurance organization)
January 17-Establishment of drug handling rules
January 26-Formation of a company
January 27-Thomas Edison obtains US patent for incandescent light bulbs
February
February 6-Strathleven arrives in London, leaving Sydney on November 29 of the previous year (first successful transport of frozen meat by freezer)
February 14-Nara Park opens
February 16-Established American Society of Mechanical Engineers
February 17-Attempted assassination of Alexander II
February 22-Yokohama Earthquake
February 28-Yokohama Specie Bank (later Bank of Tokyo) opened
March
March 17-Renamed Aikokusha, etc. to the League for the Establishment of the National Assembly
March 30-Murata rifle system
Established Maruzen (reorganized from Maruya Trading Company)
April
The Seismological Society of Japan was established in the wake of the Yokohama Earthquake that occurred in February.
April 5-Promulgation of the Assembly Ordinance
April 17-The completion of Hibiya Daijingu
April 18-The Second Disraeli Cabinet (Conservative Party) resigns in the UK.
April 24-Establishment of the Amateur Athletic Association in the United Kingdom
April 28-The Second Gladstone Cabinet (Liberal Party) is established in the United Kingdom.
May
Japanese translation of the New Testament
June
June 7-Pacific War (South America): Battle of Arica
June 29
Tahiti becomes French territory
Established Tokyo Bar Association (later Tokyo Bar Association) (Chairman Hoshi Toru)
July
July 1-Kyoto Prefectural Painting School (later Kyoto City University of Arts) opening ceremony
July 15-Aisakayama tunnel opened (completed June 1) (the first tunnel dug only by Japanese people)
July 17-Old Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code (later Code of Criminal Procedure) enacted
August
August 14-Cologne Cathedral completed more than 600 years after the start of construction (construction started 1248)
September
September 12-Tokyo School of Law (later Hosei University) opened
September 16-Special training college (later special training college) opened
September 23-Jules Ferry becomes Prime Minister of France
September 30-Henry Draper successfully shoots the Orion Nebula
October
October 1-Sousa becomes conductor of the United States Marine Band
October 8-Ogasawara Islands transferred to Tokyo Prefecture
October 15-Cologne Cathedral Dedication Ceremony (Attendance of William I)
October 20-Foundation of Free University of Amsterdam
November
November 2-James Garfield wins US presidential election
November 3rd-You set the national anthem
November 5-Establishment of factory surplus rules (start of government-owned factory surplus)
November 10-League for the Establishment of the National Assembly held the second convention (Tokyo), November 28,-Sapporo Station opened
December
December 17-Rokuro Usui's katakiuchi case (the last samurai katakiuchi in Japan).
December 26-First Boer War (-1881)
December 28-Promulgation of revised Education Order
Date unknown
Piezoelectric effect public experiment (Pierre Curie et al.)
First issue of the magazine "Science"
Luigi Denza "Funiculi Funicura" (World's First Commercial Song)
Birth
January 2-Hajime Sugiyama, Army Soldier / Politician (+ 1945)
January 12-Rengel Menichert, playwright and screenwriter (+ 1974)
January 26-Douglas MacArthur, GHQ General Commander
