1880 in Russia

• Monarch – Alexander II

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• Sixth assassination of Alexander II
• The III Branch of the Imperial Chancellery was abolished
• Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was appointed to the post of Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod
• The assassination attempt by the People's Deputy I. O. Mlodetsky on M. T. Loris-Melkov
• Trial of the Sixteen (1880)
• Berdichev machine-building plant
• Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

• July 28 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)
• September 14 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Eastern Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of the Russian Church in North America (d. 1961)
• December 1 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist activist (d. 1920)

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• Death of Empress Maria Alexandrovna

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1880 in Russia

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