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.