1882 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1882 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal
[edit] Events
25 January - London Chamber of Commerce founded.[1] 2 March - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.[2] 25 April - Kilmainham Treaty made between the British government and the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. 6 May - Phoenix Park Murders: "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans, kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin.[2] 11 July - 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.[3] 13 September - Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, Egypt becomes British protectorate.[3] 25 November - The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Iolanthe is first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London.[2] 4 December - Queen Victoria opens the Royal Courts of Justice in London.[4]
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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. The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys). St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is established in Glasgow, Scotland. Jumbo the elephant is sold to the American showman P. T. Barnum for $10,000. Regent Street Polytechnic, Britain's first polytechnic, opens in London.[1] Henry Sidgwick founds the Society for Psychical Research.[1]
[edit] Births
18 January - A. A. Milne, author (died 1956) 25 January - Virginia Woolf, writer (died 1941) 22 February - Eric Gill, sculptor and writer (died 1940) 18 April - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (died 1977) 30 May - Wyndham Halswelle, runner (died 1915) 27 July - Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer (died 1965) 14 August - Gisela Richter, art historian (died 1972) 19 September - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (died 1965) 14 October - Charlie Parker, cricketer (died 1959) 24 October - Sybil Thorndike, actress (died 1976) 25 October - Florence Easton, opera soprano (died 1955)
[edit] Deaths
9 April - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter (born 1828) 19 April - Charles Darwin, naturalist (born 1809) 3 December - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1811) 6 December - Anthony Trollope, novelist (born 1815)
[edit] References
^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 306-307. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0. ^ a b British Occupation of Egypt 1882 timeline ^ "Royal Courts of Justice visitors guide". Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
