Template:Refimprove Template:Year in India 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
- 18 September – 151 people were buried in a landslip at Naini Tal following Template:Convert of rain in 68 hours.[1][2]
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).
Deaths
References