1881

Factory Act.

A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories.

A telephone exchange opens in Budapest. Nicola Tesla becomes its chief electrician.

February 13 - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert. February 19 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

March 4 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes is succeeded as President of the United States by James Abram Garfield.
March 12 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
March 13 - Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. He is succeeded by his son, Alexander III.
April 14 - Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas
April 21 - The University of Connecticut is founded as the Storrs Agricultural School.
April 25 - Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
April 28 - Billy the Kid escapes from New Mexico jail.

May 21 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
May 21 - The United States Tennis Association is established by a small group of tennis club members.

July 2 - James Abram Garfield, President of the United States is shot by lawyer Charles Julius Guiteau. He survives the assassination attempt but he suffers from infection of his wound.
July 4 - In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
July 20 - Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.
3 August - Pretoria Convention peace treaty signed, officialy ending the war between the Boers and Britain
August 27 - A hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die

Deaths. February 9 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)

July 18 - Billy the Kid, American gunslinger (b. 1859)

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