1882

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).

Contents

Events of 1882

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1882

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 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.

★ February 14 - Llanelli Conservative Association is founder of

★ February 22 - William Van Ness Yates formation of Lone Star Fraternity at Buchtel College in Akron, Ohio.

★ March 2 - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

★ March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the 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 21th Century.

April - June

★ April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.

★ 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

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★ "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin;

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★ ''Chinese Exclusion Act'' - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA.

★ May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

★ June 6

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★ A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead.

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★ The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.

★ 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.

★ 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 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 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.

Undated

Bernard Conlon opens his first practice at 22 Mt Pleasant Liverpool - Conlon & Sons Limited an opticians serving the carriage trade of Liverpool

★ 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.

★ 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

January - June

★ January 6

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★ Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)

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★ 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)

★ April 4 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)

★ April 17 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)

★ April 18

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★ Isabel J. Cox, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985)

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★ Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)

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★ Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (d. 1948)

★ April 19 - Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (d. 1954)

★ April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

★ April 28 - Lord of Kalyug, Shree Shubhananda Gurudev. Gurudev established a Atmabodhodaya Sangham in Kerala.

★ 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

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★ Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967)

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★ 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 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)

July - December

★ July 22 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)

★ 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. 19390

★ 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 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

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★ Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)

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★ Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

★ December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)

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★ Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)

★ December 31 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
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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 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

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★ François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)

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★ Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b. 1843)

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 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)

★ December 6 - Louis Blanc, French politician and historian (b. 1811)

★ December 18 - Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)

★ December 21 - Francesco Hayez, painter (b. 1791)

★ December 31 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
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