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1882
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'''Years:''' 1879 1880 1881 - 1882 -
1883 1884 1885
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'''Decades:''' 1850s 1860s 1870s - '''
1880s''' -
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'''Centuries:''' 18th century - '''
19th century''' -
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'''1882 (MDCCCLXXXII)''' was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
*
January 2 -
John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the
Standard Oil Trust (19th century) trust.
*
February 2 - The
Knights of Columbus are formed in
New Haven, Connecticut
*
February 3 -
P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant
Jumbo
*
February 7 - In
Mississippi City the last heavyweight
boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
*
February 14 -
Llanelli Conservative Association founded.
*
March 2 –
Robert Maclean fails to assassinate
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria at Windsor
*
March 22 -
Polygamy is outlawed by the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress
*
March 24 -
Robert Koch announces the discovery of the
bacterium responsible for
tuberculosis (''
Mycobacterium tuberculosis'').
*
March 28 Republican
Jules Ferry makes primary education in
France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory, liberating the
proletariat from the
hegemony of the
Church
*
March 29 - The
Knights of Columbus are established.
*
March -
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of
Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of
Islam or
Majaddid' of 14th Century.
*
April 3 -
Old West outlaw
Jesse James 1847 Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
*
May 2 –
Charles Stewart Parnell released
*
May 6 - "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord
Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for
Ireland and permanent undersecretary
T.H. Burke in
Phoenix Park,
Dublin; "
Chinese Exclusion Act" - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA
*
May 20 -
Triple Alliance (1882) Triple Alliance between
Germany,
Austria-Hungary and
Italy.
*
June 6 - A
cyclone in the
Arabian Sea causes
flooding in
Bombay harbor - about 100.000 dead
*
June 30 – Assassin
Charles Guiteau hanged
*
July 11 - British troops occupy
Alexandria and
Suez Canal
*
July 26 -
Boers establish the republic of
Stellaland in southern Africa.
*
August 3 - The
US Congress passed a new
Immigration Act
*
August 5 -
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
*
August 20 -
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "
1812 Overture" debuts in
Moscow.
*
September 5 - The first
United States Labor Day parade is held in
New York City.
*
September 13 - British troops occupy
Cairo -
Egypt becomes British
protectorate
*
October 16 - The
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
*
November 16 - Royal Navy ''HMS Flirt'' destroys
Abari village in
Niger
Month/day unknown
*
Nikola Tesla conceives rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the
alternating current generator/motor
*
IGY First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
*
Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the
transcendental number transcendentality of
pi
*
Married Women's Property Act in
United Kingdom Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings
*
Zulu king
Cetshwayo returns to
South Africa
* Peace treaty between
Paraguay and
Uruguay
* The
United Kingdom British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded.
*
Personal Liberty League established to oppose
temperance movement in United States.
*
Carolyn Merrick elected president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
*
St Andrew's Ambulance Association established in
Glasgow,
Scotland.
Births
January-April
*
January 6 -
Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d.
1965)
*
January 6 -
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1961)
*
January 17 -
Noah Beery, American actor (d.
1946)
*
January 18 -
A. A. Milne, British author (d.
1956)
*
January 25 -
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.
1941)
*
January 30 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
President of the United States (d.
1945)
*
February 1 -
Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1973)
*
February 2 -
James Joyce, Irish author (d.
1941)
*
February 4 -
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (d.
1964)
*
February 15 -
John Barrymore, American actor (d.
1942)
*
February 26 -
Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d.
1968)
*
February 28 -
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d.
1967)
*
March 6 -
F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {d.
1980)
*
March 14 -
Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d.
1969)
*
March 15 -
Jim Lightbody, American runner (d.
1953)
*
March 18 -
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d.
1973)
*
March 23 -
Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d.
1935)
*
March 26 -
Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d.
1940)
*
April 17 -
Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d.
1951)
*
April 18 -
Isabel J. Cox, First Lady of Canada (d.
1985)
* April 18 -
Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d.
1977)
*
April 21 -
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1961)
*
April 29 -
H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d.
1945)
May-December
*
May 6 -
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany Wilhelm II (d.
1951)
*
May 9 -
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d.
1967)
* May 9 -
George Barker (painter) George Barker, American painter (d.
1965)
*
May 13 -
Georges Braque, French painter (d.
1963)
*
May 19 -
Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d.
1967)
*
May 20 -
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1949)
*
May 30 -
Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d.
1915)
*
June 9 -
Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.
1963)
*
June 15 -
Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (d.
1946)
*
June 17 -
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d.
1971)
*
August 14 -
Gisela Richter, English art historian (d.
1972)
*
August 17 -
Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d.
1974)
*
August 25 -
Sean T. O'Kelly, second
President of Ireland (d.
1966)
*
August 26 -
James Franck, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1964)
*
October 5 -
Robert Goddard (scientist) Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d.
1945)
*
October 6 -
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d.
1937)
*
October 14 -
Eamon de Valera,
Taoiseach and third
President of Ireland (d.
1975)
* October 14 -
Charlie Parker (cricketer) Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d.
1959)
*
November 11 - King
Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d.
1973)
*
December 9 -
JoaquÃn Turina, Spanish composer (d.
1949)
*
December 11 -
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d.
1921)
* December 11 -
Max Born, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1970)
*
December 16 -
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d.
1967)
Deaths
*
January 13 -
Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b.
1812)
*
February 6 -
J. J. McCarthy, Irish Architect (b.
1817)
*
March 24 -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b.
1807)
*
April 3 -
Jesse James 1847 Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b.
1847)
*
April 10 -
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b.
1828)
*
April 19 -
Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b.
1809)
*
April 27 -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b.
1803)
*
June 25 -
François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b.
1806)
*
July 4 -
Joseph Brackett, Shaker religious leader and composer (b.
1797)
*
July 16 -
Mary Todd Lincoln,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1818)
*
December 3 -
Archibald Campbell Tait,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1811)
*
December 6 -
Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b.
1819)
*
December 18 -
Henry James Sr., American theologian (b.
1811)
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