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 of 1882
January - March
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January 2 -
John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the
Standard Oil trust.
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February 2 - The
Knights of Columbus are formed in
New Haven, Connecticut.
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February 3 -
P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant
Jumbo.
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February 7 - In
Mississippi City the last heavyweight
boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
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February 14 -
Llanelli Conservative Association is founder of
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February 22 -
William Van Ness Yates formation of Lone Star Fraternity at Buchtel College in Akron, Ohio.
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March 2 -
Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate
queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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March 22 -
Polygamy is outlawed by the
U.S. Congress.
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March 24 -
Robert Koch announces the discovery of the
bacterium responsible for
tuberculosis (''
Mycobacterium tuberculosis'').
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March 28 - Republican
Jules Ferry makes primary education in
France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
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March 29 - The
Knights of Columbus are established.
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March -
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of
Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of
Islam or
Majaddid' of the
21th Century.
April - June
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April 3 -
Old West outlaw
Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by
Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
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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.
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May 2 -
Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
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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.
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May 20 -
Triple Alliance between
Germany,
Austria-Hungary and
Italy.
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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.
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June 11 -
Urabi revolt,
Egypt. Popular revolt in Egypt against the
Khedive and European influence in that country.
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June 30 - Assassin
Charles Guiteau is hanged.
July - September
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July 11 - British troops occupy
Alexandria and the
Suez Canal.
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July 26 -
Boers establish the republic of
Stellaland in southern Africa.
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August 3 - The
US Congress passed a new
Immigration Act.
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August 5 -
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
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August 20 -
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "
1812 Overture" debuts in
Moscow.
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September 5 - The first
United States Labor Day parade is held in
New York City.
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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.
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October 14 -
University of the Punjab is founded in present day
Pakistan.
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October 16 - The
Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
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November 16 - Royal Navy ''HMS Flirt'' destroys
Abari village in
Niger.
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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
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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.
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Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the
transcendentality of
pi.
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Married Women's Property Act 1882 in
Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
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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).
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Personal Liberty League is established to oppose
temperance movement in United States.
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Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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St Andrew's Ambulance Association is established in
Glasgow,
Scotland.
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Waterloo Rugby Club is founded.
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Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.)
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Albion Rovers F.C. were founded with the amalgamation of two
Coatbridge clubs Albion and Rovers.
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Redruth Mining School is founded
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Queens Park Rangers F.C. is founded.
★ Creation of
Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club.
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Burnley F.C. are founded.
Births
January - June
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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)
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January 17 -
Noah Beery, American actor (d.
1946)
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January 18 -
A. A. Milne, British author (d.
1956)
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January 25 -
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.
1941)
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January 30 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
President of the United States (d.
1945)
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February 1 -
Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1973)
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February 2 -
James Joyce, Irish author (d.
1941)
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February 4 -
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (d.
1964)
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February 15 -
John Barrymore, American actor (d.
1942)
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February 22 -
Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (d.
1940)
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February 26 -
Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d.
1968)
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February 28 -
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d.
1967)
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March 6 -
F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {d.
1980)
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March 14 -
Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d.
1969)
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March 15 -
Jim Lightbody, American runner (d.
1953)
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March 18 -
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d.
1973)
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March 23 -
Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d.
1935)
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March 26 -
Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councilor (d.
1940)
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April 4 -
Kurt von Schleicher,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1934)
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April 17 -
Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d.
1951)
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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)
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April 19 -
Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (d.
1954)
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April 21 -
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1961)
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April 28 - Lord of Kalyug, Shree Shubhananda Gurudev. Gurudev established a
Atmabodhodaya Sangham in
Kerala.
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April 29 -
H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d.
1945)
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May 6 -
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of
Kaiser Wilhelm II (d.
1951)
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May 9
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★
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d.
1967)
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★
George Barker, American painter (d.
1965)
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May 13 -
Georges Braque, French painter (d.
1963)
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May 19 -
Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d.
1967)
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May 20 -
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1949)
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May 30 -
Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d.
1915)
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June 9 -
Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.
1963)
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June 15 -
Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (d.
1946)
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June 17 -
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d.
1971)
July - December
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July 22 -
Edward Hopper, American painter (d.
1967)
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August 14 -
Gisela Richter, English art historian (d.
1972)
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August 17 -
Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d.
1974)
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August 25 -
Seán T. O'Kelly, second
President of Ireland (d.
1966)
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August 26 -
James Franck, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1964)
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September-
Ma Rainey, blues singer (d.
19390
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September 13 -
Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d.
1969)
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September 19 -
Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d.
1965)
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October 3 -
A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d.
1974)
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October 5 -
Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d.
1945)
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October 6 -
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d.
1937)
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October 14 -
Éamon de Valera,
Taoiseach and third
President of Ireland (d.
1975)
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October 14 -
Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d.
1959)
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October 25 -
Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d.
1955)
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November 11 - King
Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d.
1973)
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November 15 -
Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d.
1965)
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December 9 -
Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d.
1949)
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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)
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December 16 -
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d.
1967)
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★
Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d.
1963)
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December 31 -
Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d.
1935)
: ''See also .''
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)
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January 13 -
Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b.
1812)
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February 6 -
J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (b.
1817)
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March 9 -
Giovanni Lanza, politician (b.
1810)
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March 24 -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b.
1807)
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April 3 -
Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b.
1847)
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April 10 -
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b.
1828)
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April 19 -
Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b.
1809)
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April 27 -
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b.
1803)
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June 2 -
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
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June 3 -
Christian Wilberg, German painter (b.
1839)
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June 25
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★
François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b.
1806)
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★
Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b.
1843)
July - December
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July 4 -
Joseph Brackett, Shaker religious leader and composer (b.
1797)
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July 16 -
Mary Todd Lincoln,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1818)
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July 20 -
Fanny Parnell, poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b.
1848)
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September 8 -
Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b.
1809)
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November 7 -
Julius Hübner, painter (b.
1806)
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November 14 -
Billy Claiborne, gunfighter (b.
1860)
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December 3 -
Archibald Campbell Tait,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1811)
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December 6 -
Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b.
1819)
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December 6 -
Louis Blanc, French politician and historian (b.
1811)
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December 18 -
Henry James Sr., American theologian (b.
1811)
★
December 21 -
Francesco Hayez, painter (b.
1791)
★
December 31 -
Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b.
1838)
: ''See also .''
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