1880

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Events

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  • January 27Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires."{{US patent|0223898}} granted 27 January 1880 Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament ,including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," Edison and his team later discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last more than 1200 hours.{{cite book |last=Levy |first=Joel |title=Really useful: the origins of everyday things |year=2002 |publisher=Firefly Books |location=New York |isbn=9781552976227 |page=[https://archive.org/details/reallyusefulorig00levy/page/124 124] |url=https://archive.org/details/reallyusefulorig00levy|url-access=registration |quote=bamboo filament edison patent 1200. }}
  • January
  • The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy.
  • The Gokstad ship is found in Norway, the first Viking ship burial to be excavated.{{cite book|last=Vinner|first=Max|year=2002|title=Boats of the Viking Ship Museum|publisher=Viking Ship Museum|location=Oslo|isbn=978-8785180636}}

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  • March 4 – The Belgian ship Mercator founders off the coast of the Netherlands port of Vlissingen with the loss of her entire crew of more than 60 people.{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of a Steamer and all Hands |newspaper=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |location=Middlesbrough |date=5 June 1880 |issue=4042 |page=5}}
  • March 19 – The horse Empress and its jockey, Tommy Beasley, win the 1880 Grand National{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners |title=Grand National Winners – Sportsbook Guardian |access-date=2015-05-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227085539/https://www.sportsbookguardian.com/horse-racing/grand-national/winners |archive-date=27 December 2013 }}
  • March 20 – For the first and last time in its history, the annual side-by-side] rowing race between the 8-member teams of University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge on the River Thames is postponed. The call comes because of a thick fog that makes visibility impossible. Two days later, Oxford wins the race by 3+3⁄4 lengths.{{Cite book |title = The School of Pharmacy, University of London: Medicines, Science and Society, 1842–2012 | page=62| first = Briony | last = Hudson | first2 =Marueen | last2 = Boylan | date= 1 June 2013 | publisher = Academic Press| isbn=978-0124076907}}

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Births

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  • March 1Lytton Strachey, English critic and biographer (d. 1932)S. P. Rosenbaum, 'Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932)', [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36338 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography], Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006
  • March 2{{sndash}} René Vallon, French aviator (d. 1911){{cite book

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|title=Les Martyrs de l'Aviation

|trans-title=The Martyrs of Aviation

|publisher=E. Basset and Co.

|location=Paris

|date=1912

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= May–June =

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Deaths

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References

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Further reading

  • [https://archive.org/details/appletonsannual10unkngoog 1880 Annual Cyclopedia (1881)] highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1880; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 756 pp

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