1882

1882
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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

1882 in topic:
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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Sports - Rail Transport
Countries: Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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.
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.

April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back 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 30 - U.S. presidential assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.

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 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.

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.