[<<] 1880s [>>]
Parent: 1800s
By year: 1880 - 1881 - 1882 - 1883 - 1884 - 1885 - 1886 - 1887 - 1888 - 1889
Trends and developments: Paris holds the Exposition Universelle with the Eiffel tower as main attraction - The Arts and Crafts movement - Art Nouveau - start of the Decadent movement - manifesto of the Symbolist movement - peak popularity of music halls - rise of Tin Pan Alley - introduction of phonograph - introduction of cars - Moulin Rouge - introduction of electric lighting - Jack the Ripper
Art: Vincent Van Gogh - post-impressionism
Births: Guillaume Apollinaire - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - Edgar Varèse - Franz Kafka - Sax Rohmer - Mussolini - Lon Chaney - José Ortega y Gasset - Gaston Bachelard - D.H. Lawrence - Sylvia Beach
Literature: Flatland (1884) - À rebours (1884) - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) - Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) - Henry Spencer Ashbee - Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
More than a million people took the elevator to the top of the Eiffel tower when it was opened at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. [May 2006]
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) - Seurat
Skull with a Cigarette (1886) - Vincent van Gogh
Events
Technology
- First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
- Development and commercial production of electric lighting
- Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
Théorie de la décadence (1883) - Paul Bourget [...]
Théorie de la décadence -- Paul Bourget, Essais de psychologie contemporaine (1883)A Biased Timeline of the Counter-Culture [...]
1880 Thomas Alva Edison and J.W. Swan independently invent incandescent lamp (=first practical electric light bulb) 1880? London's first telephone exchange canned fruits and meats first appear in stores Carnegie develops first large steel furnace Captain Boycott, land agent in Mayo, Ireland is "boycotted" for refusing to accept rents fixed by his tenants Vincent Van Gogh begins painting 1880s -- first generation born after 1848 reaches its 20s: Van Gogh, Freud, Shaw, Baden-Powell, Seurat, Mahler, Steiner, Debussy, Delius, Much, Touluse-Lautrec, Yeats -- First land-use zoning: Modesto, California: attempt to control the spread of Chinese laundaries bicycling clubs, U.K. 1881 first of all cabarets "Chat Noir" founded in Paris Icaria Speranza community founded, Sonoma County, Calif Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington Rational Dress Society, U.K. 1882 Edison designs first hydroelectric plant, Wisconsin Manet: "Bar aux Folies-Bergere" Nietzsche (28): Beyond Good and Evil Cezanne: "Self Portrait" (wasn't this sort of pre-cubist?) 1883 The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: Andrew Mearns The Fellowship of the New Life, U.K. Fabian Society founded, London; Shaw joins 1884 Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra first synthetic fiber produced (Eng. scientist Sir Joseph Swan) first skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories) Buffalo Bill Cody organizes "Wild West Show" Bismarck introduces sickness insurance in Germany Howard Williams: The Ethics of Diet popularizes vegetarian diet in U.K. 1884 new recession U.S. George Eastman: sensitized roll film Gottlieb Daimler: internal combusion engine = automobile Georges Seurat (25): Bathers Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (20) moves to Montmartre National Footpaths Preservation Society, U.K. Art Workers' Guild, U.K. first regular comic strip, U.K. (Ally Sloper's Half Holiday) 1885 Karl Benz builds single-cylinder engine for motor car Gottlieb Daimler: motorcycle first English electrical tram car (Blackpool) 1886 Feb 8 London: meeting of 3-5000 unemployed workers in Trafalgar Square met by 600 police officers, goes into riot 1886 1400+ strikes (1881-85, average 500/year) 1886 May U.S.: nationwide strikes for 8-hour day Haymarket strike for 8 hour day & bombing, Chicago 1886 Farmers Alliance joins with Knights of Labor to become Populist movement 1886 fall Henry George, running as Independent Labor Party nominee for mayor of New York, comes in second 1886 Kaweah Colony, site of present Yosemite Natl Park, Calif (to 1902) American Federation of Labor founded Eighth and last Impressionist Exhibition, Paris Apache leader Geronimo surrenders, Apaches sent to ?p.o.w. ?camps in Florida and Oklahoma 1887 Allotment Act: Indian tribal holdings broken up into individual holdings Fabian Society (led by Sidney Webb & Bernard Shaw): Facts for Socialists Van Gogh: "Moulin de la Galette" huh?? 1887 Oct 23 London: huge crowds gathering daily in Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square to hear speeches turns into mob Nov 12 Trafalgar Square police defeat Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward 1888 "police battle unemployed dmnstrtrs, Trafalgar Sq (same?) Nikola Tesla constructs A.C. electric motor George Eastman perfects "Kodak" box camera J.B. Dunlop invents pneumatic tire William Burroughs: commerically practical adding-list machine first of all beauty contests held: Spa, Belgium "Jack the Ripper" murders six women in London Port Sunlight model village Charles Ashbee starts Guild & School of Handicraft, Whitechapel Paul Gauguin: "The Vision After the Sermon" Van Gogh: "The Yellow Chair" 1888-89 Burlington strike 1889 London Dock Strike Oklahoma is opened to non-Indian settlement Punch card system created by H. Hollerith Moulin Rouge opens (Place Blanche) Edward Carpenter: Civilization: Its Cause and Cure (U.K.) Abbotsholme School founded, Derbyshire (explain) Jan Addams sets up Hull House in immigrant slums of Chicago Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat Field and Cypress Trees 1889- 90 Methwold Fruit Farm Colony, Norfolk
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