1880 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
Events
- National income - 4,025 million
- 18 September – 151 people were buried in a landslip at Naini Tal following of rain in 68 hours.
Law
- Religious Societies Act
- Kazis Act
- East India Loan Act
- India Stock Act
Births
- 16 March – Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer.
- 31 July – Munshi Premchand, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter.
- Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad, scholar, freedom fighter and founder of Muslim Independent Party.