Timeline November 1880

Events in November 1880 4

• 1793 – 1880 Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Died 11 November 1880, aged 87 Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker abolitionist and a founding organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights. She died at her home near Philadelphia on 11 November 1880. She remained active in reform causes throughout her long life.
• 1854 – 1880 Ned Kelly (1854-1880) Died 11 November 1880, aged 25 Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger who led a gang blamed for police killings and bank robberies in Victoria. He was captured after a gunfight at Glenrowan in June 1880 and hanged at Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880. He remains a folk figure in Australian popular culture.
• 1880 James Garfield elected president Republican wins closely contested US presidential election James A. Garfield defeated Winfield Scott Hancock in the November 1880 election, one of the closest popular votes in US history. Garfield took office in March 1881 but was assassinated within months. The election turned on tariff policy and patronage reform.
• 1880 International fleet forces Ottoman cession of Ulcinj Great power warships end the Dulcigno crisis A combined European naval squadron gathered off the Adriatic coast in autumn 1880 to pressure the Ottoman Empire into honoring the Congress of Berlin's border award to Montenegro. The Ottoman government ceded the port of Ulcinj (Dulcigno) to Montenegro on 26 November 1880 rather than face bombardment. It was one of the first uses of coordinated great-power naval coercion to enforce a treaty.