WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1881
Find out what all happened January to November 1881

Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. (25. January 1881)

A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. (19. November 1881)

Battle of Majuba Hill, The last major battle of the First Boer War. (27. February 1881)

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona. (26. October 1881)

The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires. (23. July 1881)

China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. (24. February 1881)

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19. (2. July 1881)

Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.) (13. March 1881)

In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. (4. July 1881)

Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia. (28. June 1881)

In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. (16. April 1881)

The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). (16. February 1881)

Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army. (27. March 1881)

Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again. (26. March 1881)

Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield. (20. September 1881)

The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. (13. February 1881)

First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends. (13. October 1881)

The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.. (21. May 1881)

The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. (13. June 1881)

U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. (19. September 1881)