1882
1882 (
MDCCCLXXXII) was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar.
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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*
February 3 -
P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant
Jumbo*
February 7 - In
Mississippi City the last heavyweight
boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
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February 14 -
Llanelli Conservative Association founded.
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March 2 –
Robert Maclean fails to assassinate
Queen Victoria at Windsor
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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).
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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.
* March -
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of
Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of
Islam or
Majaddid' of 14th Century.
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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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May 2 –
Charles Stewart Parnell released
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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
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May 20 -
Triple Alliance between
Germany,
Austria-Hungary and
Italy.
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June 6 - A
cyclone in the
Arabian Sea causes
flooding in
Bombay harbor - about 100.000 dead
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June 30 – Assassin
Charles Guiteau hanged
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July 11 - British troops occupy
Alexandria and
Suez Canal*
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*
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.
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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
NigerMonth/day unknown
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Nikola Tesla conceives rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the
alternating current generator/motor
*, an international scientific program.
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Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the
transcendentality of
pi*
Married Women's Property Act 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 between
Paraguay and
Uruguay* The
British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded.
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Personal Liberty League established to oppose
temperance movement in United States.
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Carolyn Merrick elected president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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St Andrew's Ambulance Association established in
Glasgow,
Scotland.
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Waterloo Rugby Club founded.
*
Albion Rovers F.C. were founded with the amalgamation of two
Coatbridge clubs Albion and Rovers.
January-April
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January 6 -
Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d.
1965)
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January 6 -
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 -
Isabel J. Cox, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d.
1985)
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April 18 -
Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d.
1977)
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April 21 -
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1961)
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April 29 -
H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d.
1945)
* Unknown date -
Ramon de Zubiaurre, Spanish painter (d.
1969)
May-December
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May 6 -
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of
Kaiser Wilhelm II (d.
1951)
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May 9 -
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d.
1967)
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May 9 -
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)
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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 -
Sean 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 13 -
Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d.
1969)
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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 -
Eamon 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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November 11 - King
Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d.
1973)
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December 9 -
Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d.
1949)
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December 11 -
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d.
1921)
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December 11 -
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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December 31 -
Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d.
1935)
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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 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 -
François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b.
1806)
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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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September 8 -
Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b.
1809)
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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)
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December 21 -
Francesco Hayez, painter (b.
1791)
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December 31 -
Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b.
1838)
