Events from the year 1880 in Russia.
Incumbents Monarch – Alexander II
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
Death of Empress Maria Alexandrovna
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