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unusual facts about Conservative Government 1874-1880



Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Arthur Upfield

The plot is based on the 1880 disappearance of the geologist Lamont Young near Mystery Bay, New South Wales.

Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

Other appointments he held until his death were: Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire (Freemasons) from 1895 and Master of the Fox Hounds of Brocklesby from 1880.

Conrad Ansorge

He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.

Cornelius Vanderbilt II

Fourth and youngest son was Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925), the father of Cathleen Vanderbilt (from his first marriage to society debutante Cathleen Neilson) and socialite & fashion designer Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (from his second marriage to Gloria Morgan).

Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground

Ten years would pass before first-class cricket returned to Crystal Palace, when in 1880 the Players played the Australians during their tour of England.

Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr.

Hill, Jr. received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Davidson College in 1880 and 1886, respectively.

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (1835–1886), MP for West Kent 1859–1865 and Mid Kent 1880–1884

Flint Island

It was leased by the British to Houlder Brothers and Co. of London who carried out guano digging in the central part of the island from 1875 to 1880 under field manager John T. Arundel.

Gaetano Perratone Armandi

In 1880, he exhibited at Turin Giorno che fu, and at the 1883 Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited a Veduta of Gressoney.

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (July 5, 1795 – November 23, 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg.

Georgia during Reconstruction

During the tenure of Amos T. Akerman (1821–1880) as Attorney General of the United States from 1870 to 1871, thousands of indictments were brought against Klansmen in an effort to enforce the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.

Henrietta Keddie

She also did educational work, such as Musical Composers and their Works (1875) and The Old Masters and their Pictures for the Use of Schools and Learners in Art (1880), and biographical compendia such as Six Royal Ladies of the House of Hanover (1898).

Henry O'Neil

Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817–1880), historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer

Herbert Dixon

Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran (1880–1950), Northern Ireland Unionist politician

Horace Davis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress.

Italian bee

1884 (Easter) introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia, sourced from Brisbane where they were previously imported in 1880 from Italy by Chas.

James B. Weaver

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 on the Greenback ticket and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from 1879 to 1881, but in 1880 was nominated for the presidency instead of re-election to Congress.

Joao de Sousa Campos

João de Sousa Campos (1813–1880) was a city council member in Campinas from 1849–52.

John Kendrick Bangs

He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines.

Jorge Sampaio

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

Joseph Caillot

Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe italienne, Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1880, vol.

Lindenwood Park, St. Louis

Two nationally prominent Americans of the 1880s who are commemorated are General Winfield Scott Hancock, a Union general in the American Civil War and presidential nominee in 1880, and Chester A. Arthur, the Republican vice-president who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of James A. Garfield in 1881.

Link-Belt Construction Equipment

The Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company was founded as Link-Belt Machinery Company in 1880 by William Dana Ewart.

Lucy Ward

Lucy Ward Stebbins (1880–1955), Dean of Women at University of California, Berkeley

Magnesium hydroxide

The term milk of magnesia was first used for a white-colored, aqueous, mildly alkaline suspension of magnesium hydroxide formulated at about 8%w/v by Charles Henry Phillips in 1880 and sold under the brand name Phillips' Milk of Magnesia for medicinal usage.

Matthew Henry Davies

They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.

Meganeura

Fossils were discovered in the French Stephanian Coal Measures of Commentry in 1880.

Milbank, South Dakota

The city was founded in 1880 when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway first laid rails into South Dakota, and was named in honor of railroad director Jeremiah Milbank.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.

Omeisha

Numa and his associates joined the League for the Establishment of a National Assembly in 1880, and though they showed willingness of participate in the formation of the Liberal Party, in 1882 they joined the Rikken Kaishintō with Shigenobu Okuma who had been forced to leave public office during the Political Crisis of 1881.

Port of Melbourne Corporation

Dredging and dock construction began in 1880, with the canal opening to shipping in 1886, Victoria Dock opening in 1896 and dock-work and continuing into the 1920s.

Potenza Centrale railway station

The station was opened on 1 September 1880, upon the inauguration of the Picerno–Potenza section of the Battipaglia–Potenza–Metaponto railway, a line linking it directly with Salerno and Taranto.

Rice production in the United States

Between 1866 and 1880, the annual production of the three States averaged just under 41 million pounds, of which South Carolina produced more than 50 percent.

Rosen aus dem Süden

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses From the South), Op. 388, is a waltz medley composed by Johann Strauss II in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin (The Queen's Lace Handkerchief) inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen.

Saul Samuel

Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.

Siegfried Lipiner

Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.

St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin

Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880), a noted physician, is buried in the crypt of the church.

Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River

By 1885, the Oregon Pacific Railroad had been built from the Willamette Valley all the way through to Yaquina City.

Stock im Eisen

The legends of the Devil and the Stock im Eisen are the subject of an 1880 ballet by Pasquale Borri, to music by Franz Doppler.

Tapanui Branch

Construction of the line began in 1878 with the first section opened in 1880, and it operated until 1978, when it was destroyed by flooding from the Pomahaka River.

Venus of Urbino

In his 1880 travelogue A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain called the Venus of Urbino "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses".

War of the Pacific

Peruvian Navy: 2 ironclad, 2 coastal monitors, 1 corvette, 1 gunboat

December 1880

Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), son of Josiah II, was a partner in the firm from 1825 until he retired in 1842.

Wells A. Hutchins

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1864 for reelection to the Thirty-ninth Congress and again in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress.

William Candidus

Subsequently he studied under Rouchetti (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti?), of Milan, and in 1880 became a member of the opera at Frankfort am Main, where he remained until the autumn of 1885, when he joined the American Opera Company.

William Miller Jenkins

Jenkins and his wife removed to Shelby County, Iowa, in 1880 where he was admitted to the bar in 1883.

William Venable

William W. Venable (1880–1948), U.S. Representative from Mississippi

William W. Sellers

He is the fourth generation of his family to head the school, following his great-grandfather Sandford Sellers, who led Wentworth from its founding in 1880 until 1923, his great-uncle Sandford Sellers, Jr. (1923–1933), his grandfather James M. Sellers (1933–1960), and his father James M. Sellers, Jr. (1973–1990).


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