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1880 - May - August. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe. 1880 - September - December. September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the ...

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1880 - Events

1880 - May - August

May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 29 - France annexes Tahiti
July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.
July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.

1880 - September - December

September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the world takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia
October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".
October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
October 28 - The first stone was laid for the Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech.
November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election
November 4 - the first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
December 20 - Action at Bronkhorstspruit, the first major action of the First Boer War.
December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.

1880 - Unknown date

Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
Completion of Cologne cathedral.
Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.
Cocaine isolated
The British recognise Abdur Rahman Khan as amir of Afghanistan
Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards)
Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union established.

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