Timeline August 1881

Events in August 1881 4

• 1881 US Championships 1881 — first edition Men: Richard Sears First US National Championships held at Newport, Rhode Island. Richard Sears won the first of seven consecutive titles — a record that still stands.
• 1881 Pretoria Convention ends First Boer War Britain grants the Transvaal self-government Following the Boer victory at Majuba Hill, Britain and the Transvaal signed the Pretoria Convention, restoring Boer self-government under nominal British suzerainty. It formally ended the First Boer War. The settlement left tensions unresolved that would resurface in the Second Boer War two decades later.
• 1881 – 1955 Alexander Fleming Discovery of Penicillin Physician who discovered the first antibiotic substance.
• 1881 Second Irish Land Act passed Gladstone government grants Irish tenants the "three Fs" The British Parliament passed the Land Law (Ireland) Act, granting Irish tenant farmers fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale of their interest in a holding. It was a major concession by William Gladstone's government amid escalating agrarian unrest known as the Land War. A Land Commission was established to arbitrate rents.