1882
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Background Information
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1879 1880 1881 – 1882 – 1883 1884 1885 |
Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events
January - March
- January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
- February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
- February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo.
- February 14 - Llanelli Conservative Association is founder of
- March 2 - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- March 20 - British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone.
- March 22 - Polygamy is made a felony by the Edmunds Act as passed by 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.
- March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
- March - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of Islam or Majaddid' of the Muslim 14th century.
April - June
- April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford.
- April 19 - British naturalist Charles Darwin, the originator of the concept of natural selection, dies at his home, Down House in Kent, England, aged 73.
- May 2 - Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
- May 6
- May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- June 6
- June 11 - Urabi Revolt, Egypt. Popular revolt in Egypt against the Khedive and European influence in that country.
- June 30 - Assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.
July - September
- July 11 - British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
- July 26 - Boers establish the republic of Stellaland in southern Africa.
- July 31 - Foundation of the Hebrew Moshava of Rishon Le-Zion
- August 3 - The US Congress passed the 1882 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 in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
October - December
- October 5 - The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago - (currently the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) founded by Felix Adler.
- October 7 - Glentoran F.C. played their very first game of Association Football against Mountavon at Ormeau Park, Belfast
- October 14 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
- October 16 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- November 16 - Royal Navy HMS Flirt destroys Abari village in Niger.
- December 6 - Last transit of the planet Venus until 2004.
- December - Zichron Yaakov founded in Northern Israel.
Undated
- Nikola Tesla conceives rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor.
- First International Polar Year, an international scientific program.
- Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.
- Married Women's Property Act 1882 in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
- Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa.
- Peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay.
- The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
- Personal Liberty League is established to oppose temperance movement in United States.
- Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
- St Andrew's Ambulance Association is established in Glasgow, Scotland.
- St. John Ambulance is established in Canada
- Waterloo Rugby Club is founded.
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.)
- Albion Rovers F.C. were founded with the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs Albion and Rovers.
- Redruth Mining School is founded
- Queens Park Rangers F.C. is founded.
- Creation of Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club.
- Burnley F.C. are founded.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1882 MDCCCLXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2635 |
| Armenian calendar | 1331 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6632 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 38–39 |
| Bengali calendar | 1289 |
| Berber calendar | 2832 |
| British Regnal year | 45 Vict. 1 – 46 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2426 |
| Burmese calendar | 1244 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7390–7391 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十一月十二日 (4518/4578-11-12) — to — 壬午年十一月廿二日(4519/4579-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1598–1599 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1874–1875 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5642–5643 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1938–1939 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1804–1805 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4983–4984 |
| Holocene calendar | 11882 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 882–883 |
| Iranian calendar | 1260–1261 |
| Islamic calendar | 1299–1300 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 15 (明治15年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4215 |
| Minguo calendar | 30 before ROC 民前30年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2425 |
January - June
- January 6
- Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
- 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 22 - Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (d. 1940)
- 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, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1940)
- March 30 - Melanie Klein, Viennese Child Psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
- April 4 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- April 17 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
- April 18
- April 19 - Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (d. 1954)
- April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- April 29 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
- May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- May 9
- 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 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)
- Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
July - December
- July 8 - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian Composer (d. 1962)
- July 22 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- July 25 - George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain and Navy Cross winner (d. 1942)
- August 14 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
- August 17 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)
- August 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- August 26 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- September- Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
- September 13 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- September 19 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- October 3 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- October 5 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
- October 14 - Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
- October 14 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- October 20 - Béla Lugosi, Hungarian born actor (d. 1956)
- October 25 - Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d. 1955)
- November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- November 15 - Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1965)
- December 9 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- December 11
- December 16
- December 31 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
Deaths
January - June
- January 7 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of first oil lamp (b. 1822)
- January 13 - Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
- February 6 - J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (b. 1817)
- March 9 - Giovanni Lanza, politician (b. 1810)
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- April 3 - Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
- April 17 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1801
- April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
- June 2 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- June 3 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- June 25
July - December
- July 4 - Joseph Brackett, Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797)
- July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- July 20 - Fanny Parnell, poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848)
- September 8 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- November 7 - Julius Hübner, painter (b. 1806)
- November 14 - Billy Claiborne, gunfighter (b. 1860)
- December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- December 6
- December 18 - Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez, painter (b. 1791)
- December 31 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
