Timeline October 1881

Events in October 1881 4

• 1881 Savoy Theatre opens in London First public building lit entirely by electricity Richard D'Oyly Carte opened the Savoy Theatre in London to stage Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and it became the first public building in the world lit throughout by electric light. The venue gave its name to the Savoy operas. Its success demonstrated the practicality of electric lighting to a wide audience.
• 1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra founded Henry Lee Higginson establishes a major American orchestra Financier Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra and funded it personally for decades, giving its first concert in October 1881. It became one of the leading orchestras in the United States. The orchestra later gained its own home, Symphony Hall, in 1900.
• 1881 – 1973 Pablo Picasso Cubism · Spain Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker who co-founded Cubism with Braque. One of the most prolific and influential artists in history, he created over 20,000 works in a career spanning 80 years.
• 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Thirty-second shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday confronted the Clanton-McLaury gang near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Three of the outlaws were killed in the roughly thirty-second exchange. The incident became the most famous gunfight of the American frontier era.