1882
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'''1882''' was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for 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 Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria at Windsor
March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress
March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'').
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 1847|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
May 20 - Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
June 6 - A cyclone is 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 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 New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad|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
IGY|First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendental number|transcendentality of pi
Married Women's Property Act in United Kingdom|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 United Kingdom|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.
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 15 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
February 26 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
February 28 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
March 10 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
March 15 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
March 23 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
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)
May-December
May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967)
May 9 - George Barker (painter)|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 in Literature|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 5 - Robert Goddard (scientist)|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 (cricketer)|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)
March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
April 3 - Jesse James 1847|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)
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