1880s

The 1880s

Contents 1 1880 2 1881 3 1882 4 1883 5 1884 6 1885 7 1886 8 1887 9 1888 10 1889

1880

• 1880 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: gēngchén 庚辰, starting on February 10
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2424
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1941
  • Guāngxù 光緒 6
  • Meiji 明治 13
• Buddhist Events
  • Zhāng Huàshēng 張化聲, Hóngyī 弘一, and Méi Guāngxī 梅光羲 are born
• Political Events

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1881

• 1881 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: xīnsì 辛巳, starting on January 30
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2425
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1942
  • Guāngxù 光緒 7
  • Meiji 明治 14
• Buddhist Events
  • Fàn Gǔnóng 范古農 and Wáng Sēnfǔ 王森甫 are born
  • Zōngyǎng 宗仰 receives full ordination
• Political Events

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1882

• 1882 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: rénwǔ 壬午, starting on February 18
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2426
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1943
  • Guāngxù 光緒 8
  • Meiji 明治 15
• Buddhist Events
  • Yuèxiá 月霞 begins living as a hermit on Zhōngnán shān 終南山
  • Jade Buddha Chan Temple 玉佛禪寺 is founded in Shànghǎi 上海
• Political Events

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1883

• 1883 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: guǐwèi 癸未, starting on February 8
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2427
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1944
  • Guāngxù 光緒 9
  • Meiji 明治 16
• Buddhist Events
  • Lǚ Bìchéng 呂碧城, The Ninth Panchen Lama 班禪, and Qū Yìngguāng 屈映光 are born
• Political Events
  • Fall: Sino-French war begins in Vietnam

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1884

• 1884 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: jiǎshēn 甲申, starting on January 28
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2428
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1945
  • Guāngxù 光緒 10
  • Meiji 明治 17
• Buddhist Events
  • Hán Qīngjìng 韓清淨 and Sū Mànshū 蘇曼殊 are born
  • Timothy Richard 李提摩太 meets Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 for the first time
• Political Events
  • August: Battle of Fuzhou 福州

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1885

• 1885 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: yǐyǒu 乙酉, starting on February 15
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2429
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1946
  • Guāngxù 光緒 11
  • Meiji 明治 18
• Buddhist Events
  • Wáng Xiāngliù 王驤陸, Kōngyě 空也 and Xióng Shílì 熊十力 are born
• Political Events
  • June 9: Li Hongzhang signs treaty that ends Sino-French War

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1886

• 1886 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: bǐngxū 丙戌, starting on February 4
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2430
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1947
  • Guāngxù 光緒 12
  • Meiji 明治 19
• Buddhist Events
  • Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 travels to England and meets Nanjō Bunyū 南条文雄 there
  • Luó Jiālíng 羅迦陵 marries Silas Aaron Hardoon
• Political Events

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1887

• 1887 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: dīnghài 丁亥, starting on January 24
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2431
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1948
  • Guāngxù 光緒 13
  • Meiji 明治 20
• Buddhist Events
  • Rénshān 仁山 is born
• Political Events

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1888

• 1888 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: wùzǐ 戊子, starting on February 12
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2432
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1949
  • Guāngxù 光緒 14
  • Meiji 明治 21
• Buddhist Events
  • Jìchán 寄禪 returns to Húnán 湖南, the province of his birth
  • Yuèxiá 月霞 begins studying Chán 禪
• Political Events

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1889

• 1889 in the Western calendar is roughly equivalent to:
  • Traditional Calendar: jǐchǒu 己丑, starting on January 31
  • Traditional Buddhist Year: 2433
  • Current Standard Buddhist Year: 1950
  • Guāngxù 光緒 15
  • Meiji 明治 22
• Buddhist Events
• Political Events

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