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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1882 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1882
MDCCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita2635
Armenian calendar1331
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ
Assyrian calendar6632
Baháʼí calendar38–39
Balinese saka calendar1803–1804
Bengali calendar1289
Berber calendar2832
British Regnal year45 Vict. 1 – 46 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2426
Burmese calendar1244
Byzantine calendar7390–7391
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4579 or 4372
    — to —
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4580 or 4373
Coptic calendar1598–1599
Discordian calendar3048
Ethiopian calendar1874–1875
Hebrew calendar5642–5643
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1938–1939
 - Shaka Samvat1803–1804
 - Kali Yuga4982–4983
Holocene calendar11882
Igbo calendar882–883
Iranian calendar1260–1261
Islamic calendar1299–1300
Japanese calendarMeiji 15
(明治15年)
Javanese calendar1811–1812
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4215
Minguo calendar30 before ROC
民前30年
Nanakshahi calendar414
Thai solar calendar2424–2425
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
2008 or 1627 or 855
    — to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
2009 or 1628 or 856

1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1882nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 882nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1882, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

The "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus,[1] in Berlin, Germany, 1882
September 13: Battle of Tell El Kebir

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

Photograph of the comet as seen from Cape Town by David Gill
  • September 18Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing 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."

October–December

Date unknown

Births

January

Virginia Woolf
Franklin D. Roosevelt

February

Louis St. Laurent
James Joyce

March

Carlos Blanco Galindo
René Coty
Emmy Noether

April

Leopold Stokowski

May

Georges Braque

June

Karl Valentin
Ion Antonescu
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Igor Stravinsky

July

August

September

Hans Geiger

October

Robert H. Goddard
Sybil Thorndike

November

King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

December

Max Born
Zoltán Kodály

Date unknown

Deaths

January–June

Theodor Schwann
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Charles Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giuseppe Garibaldi

July–December

Mary Todd Lincoln
Friedrich Wöhler

Date unknown

References

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  17. ^ Mladin, Constantin Ioan (2014). "Contacte macedo-române – rememorări, completări, rectificări". Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica (in Romanian). 15 (1): 37–48.
  18. ^ Μεγάλη Στρατιωτικὴ καὶ Ναυτικὴ Ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία. Tόμος Ἔκτος: Σαράντα Ἐκκλησίαι–Ὤχρα [Great Military and Naval Encyclopaedia. Volume VI: Kirk Kilisse–Ochre] (in Greek). Athens: Ἔκδοσις Μεγάλης Στρατιωτικῆς καὶ Ναυτικῆς Ἐγκυκλοπαιδείας. 1930. p. 86. OCLC 31255024.
  19. ^ "Defunción" (PDF). Gaceta del Salvador. San Salvador. July 25, 1882. p. 81.
  20. ^ "Luce Ben Aben School of Arab Embroidery I, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library. 1899. Retrieved September 26, 2013.