Events
- February 2 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
- March 31 – Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world.
- May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- October 6 – The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.
- October 15 – The first blizzard from Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter (novel) swept over the prairie in Dakota Territory.
- November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.
- November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
- November 22 – Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
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