1882
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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).
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[edit] Events
[edit] 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. 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.
[edit] April - June
April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford. May 2 - Charles Stewart Parnell is 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 between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. June 6
A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead. The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo.
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.[edit] 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 passes 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.
[edit] 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. December - Zichron Yaakov founded in Northern Israel.
[edit] 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. Founding of St Andrew's Ambulance Association in Glasgow, Scotland, and St. John Ambulance in Canada. Founding of:
Waterloo Rugby Club Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (as Hotspur F.C.) Albion Rovers F.C. (though the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers) Queens Park Rangers F.C. Burnley F.C. Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club
Redruth Mining School opens. Pogroms in Southern Russia end.[edit] Births
1882 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1882
MDCCCLXXXII
MDCCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita 2635
Armenian calendar 1331
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Bahá'à calendar 38 – 39
Berber calendar 2832
Buddhist calendar 2426
Burmese calendar 1244
Byzantine calendar 7390 – 7391
Chinese calendar 辛巳年å一月å二日
(4518/4578-11-12)
(4519/4579-11-22)
(4518/4578-11-12)
— to —
壬åˆå¹´å一月廿二日(4519/4579-11-22)
Coptic calendar 1598 – 1599
Ethiopian calendar 1874 – 1875
Hebrew calendar 5642 – 5643
- Vikram Samvat 1937 – 1938
- Shaka Samvat 1804 – 1805
- Kali Yuga 4983 – 4984
Holocene calendar 11882
Iranian calendar 1260 – 1261
Islamic calendar 1299 – 1300
Japanese calendar Meiji 15
(明治15年)
(明治15年)
Korean calendar 4215
Thai solar calendar 2425
[edit] 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
Isabel J. Cox, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985) Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977) 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 29 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945) May 5 - Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1960) May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951) May 9
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967) 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) Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
[edit] 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) July 27 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer and aircraft company founder (d. 1965) 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) 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) 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 - JoaquÃn Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949) December 11
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921) Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
December 16
Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967) Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)
December 31 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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 6 Richard Henry Dana Founder of Dana Point, CA 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 Antonio Fontanesi, Italian painter (b. 1818)
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
François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806) Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b. 1843)
June 30 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)[edit] 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) August 31 - Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b. 1812) September 8 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809) September 30 - José Milla y Vidaurre, Guatemalan writer (b. 1822) 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) 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)[edit] External links
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