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In 1881, President William Hathaway Forbes of the newly renamed American Bell Telephone Company issued the first annual report indicating that the 1880 profits were over US$200,000 (equivalent to $6,314,000 in 2023), and it now operated 133,692 telephones. It set a policy that it leased telephones to customers (by the month) and retained ownership.
The census took place on April 4, 1881, having been assented to via the Census Act on May 15, 1879. The total population count of Canada was 4,324,810. [ 1 ] Dependent on the quoted figure, this is either a 24.1% increase from the 1871 census's 3,485,761, or a 17.2% increase from the 1871 estimate's 3,689,257.
September 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th president of the U.S. from March to September 1881 (assassinated) (born 1831) September 22 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (born 1831) October 3 – Orson Pratt, religious leader (born 1811) October 8 – Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871 (born ...
Transport companies established in 1881 (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Companies established in 1881" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Penny Venetian Red was a British postage stamp equal to the value of one penny. Issued in 1880, [ 1 ] it was designed and surface-printed by security printing company De La Rue . [ 2 ] It superseded the Penny Red , which had been used in Great Britain since 1841, and was the third one-penny stamp to enter regular usage in the country.
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1880s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1880 and 31 December 1889.It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.
Value, "CAROL I DOMNUL ROMANIEI" ("Carol I Prince of Romania"), the effigy of Prince Carol I "1866 - 1906", "CAROL I REGE AL ROMANIEI" ("Carol I King of Romania"), the effigy of the King 1881 19 December 1931 5 lei 38 mm 25 g Silver 90%, Copper 10% 1880 These images are to scale at 2.5 pixels per millimetre.
The electric arc lights went into regular service on December 20, 1880. The new Brooklyn Bridge of 1883 had seventy arc lamps installed in it. By 1886, there was a reported number of 1,500 arc lights installed in Manhattan. [7] 1880–1883: James Wimshurst of Poplar, London, England invents the Wimshurst Machine.