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The results from the census were used to determine the apportionment for the 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, and 52nd sessions of the United States Congress. The processing of the 1880 census data took so long (eight years) that the Census Bureau contracted Herman Hollerith to design and build a tabulating machine to be used for the next census.
June 1 – United States Census is 50,155,783. More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western United States. August 1 – Rufus W. Cobb is reelected the 25th governor of Alabama defeating James Madison Pickens.
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888; Prices and Wages by Decade, 1880–1889 – Guide published by the University of Missouri Library points to pages in digital libraries (freely available online) that show average prices and wages by occupation, race, sex, and more.
The 1890 United States census enumerates the population of the Territory of New Mexico, later determined to be 160,282, an increase of 34.1% since the 1880 United States census. New Mexico becomes the third most populous of the six U.S. territories. January 21: The New Mexico Territorial Agriculture College opens at the former Las Cruces College.
1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1880th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 880th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1880, the ...
The Dakota Territory had significant regional tensions between the northern part and the southern part from the beginning, the southern part always being more populated – in the 1880 United States census, the population of the southern part (98,268) was more than two and a half times of the northern part (36,909), and southern Dakotans saw ...
1880; 1879; 1882 in ... Events from the year 1882 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Chester A. Arthur (R-New York) Vice ...
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