1880

1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1877 1878 1879 – 1880 – 1881 1882 1883

1880 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1880 MDCCCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2633
Armenian calendar	1329 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6630
Bahá'í calendar	36–37
Balinese saka calendar	1801–1802
Bengali calendar	1287
Berber calendar	2830
British Regnal year	43 Vict. 1 – 44 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2424
Burmese calendar	1242
Byzantine calendar	7388–7389
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4576 or 4516     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4577 or 4517
Coptic calendar	1596–1597
Discordian calendar	3046
Ethiopian calendar	1872–1873
Hebrew calendar	5640–5641
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1936–1937
- Shaka Samvat	1801–1802
- Kali Yuga	4980–4981
Holocene calendar	11880
Igbo calendar	880–881
Iranian calendar	1258–1259
Islamic calendar	1297–1298
Japanese calendar	Meiji 13 (明治１３年)
Javanese calendar	1808–1809
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4213
Minguo calendar	32 before ROC 民前32年
Nanakshahi calendar	412
Thai solar calendar	2422–2423
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 2006 or 1625 or 853     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 2007 or 1626 or 854

Births

• January 29 – W.C. Fields, American comedian

Events

• February 2 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
• Volapük created.

Deaths

• Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (b. 1854)