1881

1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1881st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 881st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1881, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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

1881 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1881 MDCCCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2634
Armenian calendar	1330 ԹՎ ՌՅԼ
Assyrian calendar	6631
Bahá'í calendar	37–38
Balinese saka calendar	1802–1803
Bengali calendar	1288
Berber calendar	2831
British Regnal year	44 Vict. 1 – 45 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2425
Burmese calendar	1243
Byzantine calendar	7389–7390
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4577 or 4517     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4578 or 4518
Coptic calendar	1597–1598
Discordian calendar	3047
Ethiopian calendar	1873–1874
Hebrew calendar	5641–5642
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1937–1938
- Shaka Samvat	1802–1803
- Kali Yuga	4981–4982
Holocene calendar	11881
Igbo calendar	881–882
Iranian calendar	1259–1260
Islamic calendar	1298–1299
Japanese calendar	Meiji 14 (明治１４年)
Javanese calendar	1809–1811
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4214
Minguo calendar	31 before ROC 民前31年
Nanakshahi calendar	413
Thai solar calendar	2423–2424
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 2007 or 1626 or 854     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 2008 or 1627 or 855

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)