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Contract Signing
- When
- August 1880
- Where
- Bridgeport, Connecticut
Barnum and Bailey signed a contract in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in August 1880 to create the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Competing circus owners P. T. Barnum and James A. Bailey signed a contract in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in August 1880. This agreement established the Barnum & Bailey Circus, combining their respective operations. The legacy row specifies the date as August 26, 1880, though the supplied passages confirm the year and location.
Sources
- James Anthony Bailey Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-05
- P. T. Barnum Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.