page_title: Timeline of nursing history
section_title: 1880s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of nursing history / 19th century / 1880s
context_page_description: 1–500 AD – Nursing care palliative needs of persons and families. Religious organizations were the care providers.
  55 CE – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess.
  300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing.
  c. 390 CE – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola.
  c. 620 CE – Rufaidah bint Sa'ad became the first Muslim nurse.
context_section_description: 1881 – Clara Barton becomes the first president of the American Red Cross, which she founded.
  1881 – Created the first Portuguese Nursing School at Coimbra, Portugal.
  1881 - Seacole died in Paddington, London.
  1884 – Mary Agnes Snively, the first Ontario nurse trained according to the principles of Florence Nightingale, assumes the position of Lady Superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital's School of Nursing.
  1885 – Following the Hospital and Charitable Aids Act, conditions improved.(MacDonald,1990).
  1885 – The first nurse training institute is established in Japan, thanks to the pioneering work of Linda Richards.
  1886 – The first regular training school in India is established in Bombay, with funds provided by the governor general.
  1886 – The Nightingale, the first American nursing journal, is published.
  1886 – Spelman Seminary establishes the first nursing program specifically for African-Americans.
  1888 – The monthly journal The Trained Nurse begins publication in Buffalo, New York.
caption: Clara Barton
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