1882
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1879 1880 1881 – 1882 – 1883 1884 1885 |
| 1882 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Sports – Rail Transport |
| Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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 |
[edit] Events
[edit] February3–March
- 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 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 Muslim 14th century.
[edit] April–June
- April 3 – Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford.
- May 2 – Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
- May 6
- The "Invincibles" (militant Irish republicans) kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin;
- The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first important law which restricts immigration into the U.S.A.
- May 20 – The Triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- June 6
- A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead.
- Battle of Embabo: The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army.
- June 11 – The Urabi Revolt breaks out in Egypt against the Khedive and European influence in that country.
- June 28 – Anglo-French Convention of 1882 signed marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- June 30 – U.S. presidential 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 – The Hebrew Moshava of Rishon Le-Zion is founded.
- August 3 – The U.S. 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 – 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, and Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
- September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.".
[edit] October–December
- October 5 – The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago – (currently the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler.
- October 14 – The University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
- October 16 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- November 14 – Franklin Leslie shoots Billy Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona.
- November 16 – The Royal Navy's HMS Flirt destroys Abari village in Niger.
- December 6 – The last transit of the planet Venus until 2004 occurs.
- December – Zichron Yaakov is founded in northern Israel.
[edit] Undated
- Nikola Tesla conceives the rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor.
- First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.
- Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.
- The 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.
- A peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay.
- The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
- The Personal Liberty League is established to oppose the temperance movement in the United States.
- Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
- St Andrew's Ambulance Association in Glasgow, Scotland, and St. John Ambulance in Canada are founded.
- 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
| Gregorian calendar | 1882 MDCCCLXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2635 |
| Armenian calendar | 1331 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 38 – 39 |
| Berber calendar | 2832 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2426 |
| Burmese calendar | 1244 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7390 – 7391 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十一月十二日 (4518/4578-11-12) — to —
壬午年十一月廿二日(4519/4579-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1598 – 1599 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1874 – 1875 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5642 – 5643 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - 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) |
| 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 12 – Milton Sills, American stage & film actor (d. 1930)
- January 13 – Alois Hitler, Jr., Austrian elder half-brother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1956)
- January 17 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish/American gangster (d. 1928)
- 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 (d. 1964)
- February 8 – Thomas Selfridge, United States Army officer and first person killed in airplane crash (d. 1908)
- February 11 – Valli Valli, Broadway actress (d. 1927)
- 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 24 – Hugh Dowding, commander of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
- 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)
- June 28 – Valeska Surratt, stage actress & silent film star (d. 1962)
[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 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian General (d. 1955)
- 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)
- September 16 – Robert Hichens, Titanic Quartermaster, man at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg (d. 1940)
- 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 24 – Sybil Thorndike, British stage & film actress (d. 1976)
- October 25 – Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d. 1955)
- November 8 – Ethel Clayton, silent screen star (d. 1966)
- November 11 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- November 15 – Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1965)
- November 18 – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (d. 1973)
- November 29 – Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator, inventor of Le Canard (d. 1984)
- December 9 – Joaquín 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)
- Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (d. 1974)
- December 23 – Mokichi Okada, Japanese Religious(d. 1955)
- 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 the first oil lamp (b. 1822)
- January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., founder of Dana Point, CA (b. 1815)
- January 13 – Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
- February 6 – J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (b. 1817)
- March 9 – Giovanni Lanza, Italian 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, English 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, American Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797)
- July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- July 20 – Fanny Parnell, Irish 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, German painter (b. 1806)
- November 14 – Billy Claiborne, American 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)
- Anthony Trollope, British novelist and postal service official (b. 1815)
- December 18 – Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)
- December 21 – Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (b. 1791)
- December 31 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
[edit] External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1882 |
