1880

Events from the year 1880 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Rutherford B. Hayes (R-OH)
* Vice President: William A. Wheeler (R-NY)
* Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Samuel J. Randall (D-PA)
* Congress: 46th
==Events==
* February 1 – The journal Science is first published, with financial backing from Thomas Edison.
* February 2 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
* March 31 – Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world.
* May 11 – Mussel Slough Tragedy: A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turns deadly when a gun battle breaks out, leaving 7 dead.
* May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
* May 30 – League of American Wheelmen is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
* June 1 – United States Census is 50,155,783.
* September 30 – Amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the first ever photograph of the Orion Nebula.
* October 6 – The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.
* October 15 – The first blizzard mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter sweeps over the prairie in Dakota Territory.
* November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James A. Garfield defeats Winfield Scott Hancock.
* November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
* November 22 – Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
==Sport==
* September 15 – The Chicago White Stockings clinch their Second National League pennant with a 5–2 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
==Memoriam==
* January 1 – Morris Ketchum, financier (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 8 – "Emperor Norton", eccentric (aged 61; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 12 – Nell Arthur, wife of future President Chester A. Arthur (aged 42; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 19 – James Westcott, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849 (aged 77; Montreal, QC, Canada)
* February 14 – Samuel G. Arnold, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 to 1863 (aged 58; Providence, RI, USA)
* February 17 – James Lenox, bibliophile (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 4 – Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (aged 65; Marshall, TX, USA)
* May 8 – Jones Very, Transcendentalist essayist, poet, clergyman and mystic (aged 66; Salem, MA, USA)
* May 14 – Sanford E. Church, lawyer and politician (aged 65; Albion, NY, USA)
* June 12 – Albert G. Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1854 to 1861 (aged 67; Terry, MS, USA)
* June 13 – James A. Bayard Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1851 to 1864 (aged 80; Wilmington, DE, USA)
* June 17 – James B. Howell, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1870 to 1871 (aged 63; Keokuk, IA, USA)
* June 28 – Texas Jack Omohundro, frontier scout, actor and cowboy (aged 33; Leadville, CO, USA)
* July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, novelist and abolitionist (aged 78; Wayland, MA, USA)
* July 21 – Hiram Walden, politician (aged 79; Wright, NY, USA)
* August 6 – William Orlando Butler, U.S. political figure and U.S. Army major general (aged 89; Carrollton, KY, USA)
* August 9 – William Bigler, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1856 to 1861 (aged 66; Clearfield, PA, USA)
* August 16 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1863 to 1865 (aged 67; Louisville, GA, USA)
* August 19 – James Seddon, 4th Confederate States Secretary of War (aged 65; Goochland County, VA, USA)
* August 24 – Ouray, Ute leader (aged 46; Ignacio, CO, USA)
* September 19 – Lafayette S. Foster, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1855 to 1867 (aged 73; Norwich, CT, USA)
* October 14 – Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief (aged 55; Tres Castillos, Mexico)
* November 3 - Solon Robinson, founder of Crown Point, Indiana (aged 77; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
* November 9 – Edwin Drake, first American to successfully drill for oil (aged 61; Bethlehem, PA, USA)
* November 11 – Lucretia Mott, abolitionist and women's rights activist (aged 87; La Mott, PA, USA)
* December 20 – Gaspar Tochman, lawyer and Confederate colonel (aged 83; Spotsylvania County, VA, USA)
* December 30 – Epes Sargent, editor, poet and playwright (aged 67; Boston, MA, USA)
==External links==
* 1880 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 11