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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1875 | |
| 2 | 1877 | |
| 3 | 1880 | |
| 4 | 1881 | - 1881: Postal Orders introduced
- 1881: Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
- 4 Mar 1881—19 Sep 1881: James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the United States
 James Abram Garfield
- Sep 1881: Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity
supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)
- 19 Sep 1881—3 Mar 1885: Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States
 Chester Alan Arthur
- 26 Oct 1881: Gunfight at OK Corral
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| 5 | 1882 | - 1882: Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
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