Events from the year 1880 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- Sixth assassination of Alexander II
- The III Branch of the Imperial Chancellery was abolished
- Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was appointed to the post of Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod
- The assassination attempt by the People's Deputy I. O. Mlodetsky on M. T. Loris-Melkov
- Trial of the Sixteen (1880)
- Berdichev machine-building plant
- Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Births
- July 28 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)
- September 14 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Eastern Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of the Russian Church in North America (d. 1961)
- December 1 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist activist (d. 1920)
Deaths
References
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