Important Historical Events of the year 1881, Year 1881 in History
List of 1881 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1881
What happened in the year 1881?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 25, 1881 | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. |
| February 2, 1881 | The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.[7] |
| February 16, 1881 | The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). |
| February 22, 1881 | Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York. |
| February 24, 1881 | China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. |
| February 27, 1881 | First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place. |
| April 11, 1881 | Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. |
| April 14, 1881 | The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas. |
| April 16, 1881 | In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. |
| April 28, 1881 | Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. |
| May 10, 1881 | Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom. |
| May 12, 1881 | In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. |
| May 21, 1881 | The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C. |
| June 13, 1881 | The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. |
| June 28, 1881 | The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed. |
| June 29, 1881 | In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. |
| July 1, 1881 | The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. |
| July 1, 1881 | General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. |
| July 2, 1881 | Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19). |
| July 4, 1881 | In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. |
| July 14, 1881 | American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. |
| July 23, 1881 | The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires. |
| August 27, 1881 | The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths. |
| September 11, 1881 | In the Swiss state of Glarus, a rockslide buries parts of the village of Elm, destroying 83 buildings and killing 115 people. |
| September 20, 1881 | U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day. |
| October 13, 1881 | First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends. |
| October 26, 1881 | Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. |
| November 3, 1881 | The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile. |
| November 7, 1881 | Mapuche uprising of 1881: Mapuche rebels destroy the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial after defenders fled to the hills. |
| November 9, 1881 | Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco. |
| November 19, 1881 | A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. |
| December 3, 1881 | The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published. |
| December 4, 1881 | The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. |