Events in the year 1880 in India.
Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (from 8 June)
Events National income - 4,025 million 18 September – 151 people were buried in a landslip at Naini Tal following of rain in 68 hours.
Law Religious Societies Act Kazis Act East India Loan (East Indian Railway Debentures) Act (British statute) India Stock (Powers of Attorney) Act (British statute)
Births 16 March – Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer (died 27 April 1960). 31 July – Munshi Premchand, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter (died 8 October 1936). Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad, scholar, freedom fighter and founder of Muslim Independent Party (died 1940).
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