1882

1882 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1882; MDCCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2635
Armenian calendar	1331; ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	6632
Baháʼí calendar	38–39
Balinese saka calendar	1803–1804
Bengali calendar	1289
Berber calendar	2832
British Regnal year	45 Vict. 1 – 46 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2426
Burmese calendar	1244
Byzantine calendar	7390–7391
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake); 4579 or 4372; — to —; 壬午年 (Water Horse); 4580 or 4373
Coptic calendar	1598–1599
Discordian calendar	3048
Ethiopian calendar	1874–1875
Hebrew calendar	5642–5643
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1938–1939
- Shaka Samvat	1803–1804
- Kali Yuga	4982–4983
Holocene calendar	11882
Igbo calendar	882–883
Iranian calendar	1260–1261
Islamic calendar	1299–1300
Japanese calendar	Meiji 15; (明治１５年)
Javanese calendar	1811–1812
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4215
Minguo calendar	30 before ROC; 民前30年
Nanakshahi calendar	414
Thai solar calendar	2424–2425
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

Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885

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.

Events

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
February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
February 14 - Llanelli Conservative Association founded.
March 2 – Robert Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor
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).
March 28 Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory, liberating the proletariat from the hegemony of the Church
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.
April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
May 2 – Charles Stewart Parnell 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 - about 100.000 dead
June 30 – Assassin Charles Guiteau hanged
July 11 - British troops occupy Alexandria and Suez Canal
July 26 - Boers establish the republic of Stellaland in southern Africa.
August 3 - The US Congress passed a new 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
October 16 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
November 16 - Royal Navy HMS Flirt destroys Abari village in Niger

Month/day unknown

Nikola Tesla conceives rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor
First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
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
Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa
Peace treaty between Paraguay and Uruguay
The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded.
Personal Liberty League established to oppose temperance movement in United States.
Carolyn Merrick elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
St Andrew's Ambulance Association established in Glasgow, Scotland.
Waterloo Rugby Club founded.

Births

January-April

January 6 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
January 6 - 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 20 - Pádraic Ó Conaire, Writer (d. 1928)
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)
April 4 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
April 17 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
April 18 - Isabel J. Cox, First Lady of Canada (d. 1985)
April 18 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)
April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
April 29 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)

May-December

May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967)
May 9 - 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)
August 14 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
August 17 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)
August 25 - Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
August 26 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
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 - Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
October 14 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
December 9 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
December 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)
December 11 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

January 13 - Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
February 6 - J. J. McCarthy, Irish Architect (b. 1817)
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 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
June 25 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
July 4 - Joseph Brackett, Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797)
July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
December 6 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
December 18 - Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)

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Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885