29 January 1881Billroth Gastric SurgeryTheodor Billroth
The operation becomes a landmark in abdominal surgery.
Historical records for Germany in 1881, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The operation becomes a landmark in abdominal surgery.
Performs the first successful partial gastrectomy for stomach cancer.
Performs the first successful removal of part of a cancerous stomach.
Establishes a landmark operation in abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery.
Writes to Vera Zasulich discussing the Russian rural commune and possible paths of social development.
Opens an electric railway at Lichterfelde near Berlin.
The line becomes the world's first electric tramway.
Birth of Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Marx's wife Jenny dies after decades of political exile and collaboration.
Birth of Walter Brauchitsch
In 1881, German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz argued that both positive and negative charges were divided into elementary parts, each of which "behaves like atoms of electricity"
Opposes Bismarck's tariffs & forms the Liberal Union with National Liberals
Marries Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
The Septennat Law financing the Army for 7 years is passed through the Reichstag
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