1881

1881 was a common year.

1881 Media

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  February 27: Battle of Majuba Hill

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  July 2: Assassination of James A. Garfield

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  World's first regular electric tram service started in Berlin

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  Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in The Swan by Mikhail Fokine, 1908-1909, Berlin

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  Hermann Staudinger

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  Portrait of Mary Webb who died in 1927

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  Maggie Gripenberg

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  Hans Fischer (Chemiker) (1881–1945)

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1878 1879 1880 – 1881 – 1882 1883 1884

Events

• The Hamleys Toy Store opens on Regent's Street in London.

Births

• February 11 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (d. 1950)
• February 21 - Kenneth J. Alford, British composer (d. 1945)
• October 25 – Pablo Picasso (d. 1973)
• November 25 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)

Deaths

• September 19 – United States President James A. Garfield (b. 1831)