Editing 1880s (section)

===Prominent political events===
* 3 August 1881: The [[Pretoria Convention]] peace treaty is signed, officially ending the war between the [[Boers]] and [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
* 3 May 1882: The [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] was signed into law by President [[Chester A. Arthur]].
*20 May 1882: [[Germany]], [[Austria-Hungary]], and [[Italy]] form The Triple Alliance as a defensive military alliance<ref>Grenville, John; Wasserstein, Bernard, eds. (2013). The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 9780415141253. Retrieved 2 March 2014.</ref>
* 1884: [[International Meridian Conference]] in Washington D.C., held to determine the Prime Meridian of the world.
* 1884–1885: [[Berlin Conference]], when the western powers divided Africa.
* The United States had five Presidents during the decade, the most since the 1840s. They were [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], [[James A. Garfield]], [[Chester A. Arthur]], [[Grover Cleveland]] and [[Benjamin Harrison]].
* 20-22 June 1887: The [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria]] was celebrated marking [[Queen Victoria]]'s 50 year reign.
* 13 May 1888: [[Lei Áurea|Brazil abolishes slavery]], the last country in the [[Western Hemisphere|western hemisphere]] to do so.<ref>{{Cite web |title=abolition |url=https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/documents/slavery/abolition.htm |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=faculty.chass.ncsu.edu}}</ref>