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+ | == Events == | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January–March === | ||
+ | * [[January 2]] | ||
+ | ** The [[Standard Oil]] [[Trust (business)|Trust]] is secretly created in the United States, to control multiple corporations set up by [[John D. Rockefeller]] and his associates.<ref>Whitten, David O.; Whitten, Bessie Emrick (1990). Handbook of American Business History: Manufacturing. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182.</ref> | ||
+ | * [[January 5]] – [[Charles J. Guiteau]] is found guilty of the [[assassination of James A. Garfield]] (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an [[insanity defense]] raised by his lawyer. | ||
+ | * [[January 12]] – [[Holborn Viaduct power station]] in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation. | ||
+ | * [[February 3]] – American showman [[P. T. Barnum]] acquires the elephant [[Jumbo]], from the [[London Zoo]]. | ||
+ | * [[March 2]] – [[Roderick Maclean]] fails in an attempt to assassinate [[Queen Victoria]], at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]]. | ||
+ | * [[March 18]] (March 6 [[Old Style]]) – The [[Principality of Serbia]] becomes the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] following a proclamation. | ||
+ | * [[March 20]] – British gunboats enter [[Monrovia]], with [[Arthur Havelock]] demanding that [[Liberia]] cede disputed territory to the British colony of [[Sierra Leone]], of which he is Governor. | ||
+ | * [[March 22]] – [[Polygamy]] is made a felony by the [[Edmunds Act]], passed by the [[United States 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. | ||
+ | ** German medical products company ''[[Beiersdorf]]'' is founded. | ||
+ | * [[March 29]] – The [[Knights of Columbus]], a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[fraternal service organization]], is founded in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April–June === | ||
+ | * [[April 3]] – [[Old West]] outlaw [[Jesse James]] is shot in the back of the head and killed by [[Robert Ford (outlaw)|Robert Ford]] in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]]. | ||
+ | * [[April 29]] – The [[Elektromote]], the world's first [[trolleybus]], begins operation in [[Berlin]]. | ||
+ | * [[May]] – [[Burnley F.C.]] in the north of England changes codes, from [[Rugby union]] to [[Association football]]. | ||
+ | * [[May 1]] – The [[Berlin Philharmonic]] orchestra is founded in Germany, as ''Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle''. | ||
+ | * [[May 2]] – The [[Kilmainham Treaty]], an agreement between the British government and [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalist]] leader [[Charles Stewart Parnell]] to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released from [[Kilmainham Gaol]] in [[Dublin]]. | ||
+ | * [[May 6]] – [[Phoenix Park Murders]] in Ireland: [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]], the newly appointed [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]], and [[Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant)|Thomas Henry Burke]], his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed in [[Phoenix Park]], Dublin, by members of the [[Irish National Invincibles]] (militant Irish republicans). | ||
+ | * [[May 8]] – The [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] is the first important law which restricts immigration into the United States. | ||
+ | * [[May 20]] – The [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] is formed between Germany, [[Austria-Hungary]] and Italy. | ||
+ | * [[June]] | ||
+ | ** [[Ferdinand von Lindemann]] publishes his proof of the [[transcendental number|transcendentality]] of [[pi]]. | ||
+ | ** [[St Andrew's Ambulance Association]] is founded in [[Glasgow]], Scotland; [[St. John Ambulance Canada]] is also founded this year. | ||
+ | * [[June 11]] – The [['Urabi revolt]] breaks out in [[Egypt]] against [[Khedive]] [[Tewfik Pasha]] and European influence in that country. | ||
+ | * [[June 28]] – The [[Anglo-French Convention of 1882]] is signed, marking territorial boundaries between [[Guinea]] and [[Sierra Leone]]. | ||
+ | * [[June 30]] – U.S. presidential assassin [[Charles J. Guiteau]] is hanged in Washington, D.C. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July–September === | ||
+ | * [[July 11]]–[[July 13|13]] – [[Anglo-Egyptian War]]: The British [[Mediterranean Fleet]] carries out the [[Bombardment of Alexandria]], its forces capturing the city of [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], and securing the [[Suez Canal]]. | ||
+ | * [[July 23]] The [[Imo Incident]] occurs in [[Seoul]], Korea as a result of bad rations and payment towards soldiers of the [[Old Korean Army]]. | ||
+ | * [[July 26]] | ||
+ | ** [[Boer]]s establish the republic of [[Stellaland]] in southern Africa. | ||
+ | ** [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Parsifal]]'' debuts, at the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]] in [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]]. | ||
+ | * [[July 31]] – The Hebrew Moshava of [[Rishon LeZion]] is founded. | ||
+ | * [[August 3]] – The [[U.S. Congress]] passes the [[1882 Immigration Act]]. | ||
+ | * [[August 5]] – [[Standard Oil of New Jersey]] is established. | ||
+ | * [[August 18]] – The [[Married Women's Property Act 1882]] receives royal assent in Britain; it enables women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings. | ||
+ | * [[August 20]] – [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[1812 Overture]]'' debuts in Moscow. | ||
+ | * [[September 4]] – [[Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the United States, lighting one square mile of [[lower Manhattan]]. This is considered by many as the day that begins the electrical age. | ||
+ | * [[September 5]] | ||
+ | **The first United States [[Labor Day]] parade is held in New York City. | ||
+ | **[[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.]] is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London. | ||
+ | * [[September 13]] | ||
+ | **[[Anglo-Egyptian War]]: British troops occupy [[Cairo]], and [[Egypt]] becomes a British [[protectorate]]. | ||
+ | **[[Selwyn College, Cambridge]] is founded after [[Queen Victoria]] grants a Charter of Incorporation. | ||
+ | * [[September 18]] – [[Great 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 === | ||
+ | * [[October 5]] – The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler. | ||
+ | * [[October 14]] – The [[University of the Punjab]] is founded in modern-day [[Pakistan]]. | ||
+ | * [[October 16]] – The [[New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad]] ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between [[Buffalo, New York]], and Chicago. Nine days later the [[Seney Syndicate]] sells the road to [[William Henry Vanderbilt]], for US$7.2 million. | ||
+ | * [[October 21]] – [[Waseda University]] was founded by [[Shigenobu Ōkuma]] in [[Japan]], as predecessor name was Tokyo Specializing School.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} | ||
+ | * [[November 14]] – [[Franklyn Leslie]] shoots [[Billy Claiborne]] dead, in the streets of [[Tombstone, Arizona]]. | ||
+ | * [[November 16]] – The British [[Royal Navy]]'s {{HMS|Flirt}} destroys Abari village in [[Niger]]. | ||
+ | * [[December]] – [[Zikhron Ya'akov]] is founded in northern Israel. | ||
+ | * [[December 6]] – A [[Transit of Venus, 1882|transit of Venus]], the last until [[2004]], occurs. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Date unknown === | ||
+ | * The first [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific program, begins. | ||
+ | * [[Zulu people|Zulu]] king [[Cetshwayo kaMpande]] returns to South Africa from England. | ||
+ | * A peace treaty is signed between [[Paraguay]] and [[Uruguay]]. | ||
+ | * [[Pogrom]]s in [[Southern Federal District|Southern Russia]] end. | ||
+ | * [[Nikola Tesla]] claims this is when he conceives the [[rotating magnetic field]] principle, which he later uses to invent his [[induction motor]]. | ||
+ | * The British [[Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys|Chartered Institute of Patent Agents]] (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded. | ||
+ | * 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]] in the United States. | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
+ | ==References== | ||
+ | {{reflist}} |
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year 1882 |
Contents
Events
January–March
- January 2
- The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States, to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.[1]
- January 5 – Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an insanity defense raised by his lawyer.
- January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.
- February 3 – American showman P. T. Barnum acquires the elephant Jumbo, from the London Zoo.
- March 2 – Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, at Windsor.
- March 18 (March 6 Old Style) – The Principality of Serbia becomes the Kingdom of Serbia following a proclamation.
- March 20 – British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone, of which he is Governor.
- March 22 – Polygamy is made a felony by the Edmunds Act, passed by the United States 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.
- German medical products company Beiersdorf is founded.
- March 29 – The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal service organization, is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
April–June
- April 3 – Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Missouri.
- April 29 – The Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, begins operation in Berlin.
- May – Burnley F.C. in the north of England changes codes, from Rugby union to Association football.
- May 1 – The Berlin Philharmonic orchestra is founded in Germany, as Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle.
- May 2 – The Kilmainham Treaty, an agreement between the British government and Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released from Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.
- May 6 – Phoenix Park Murders in Ireland: Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by members of the Irish National Invincibles (militant Irish republicans).
- May 8 – The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first important law which restricts immigration into the United States.
- May 20 – The Triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- June
- Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.
- St Andrew's Ambulance Association is founded in Glasgow, Scotland; St. John Ambulance Canada is also founded this year.
- June 11 – The 'Urabi revolt breaks out in Egypt against Khedive Tewfik Pasha and European influence in that country.
- June 28 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 is signed, marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- June 30 – U.S. presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C.
July–September
- July 11–13 – Anglo-Egyptian War: The British Mediterranean Fleet carries out the Bombardment of Alexandria, its forces capturing the city of Alexandria, Egypt, and securing the Suez Canal.
- July 23 The Imo Incident occurs in Seoul, Korea as a result of bad rations and payment towards soldiers of the Old Korean Army.
- July 26
- Boers establish the republic of Stellaland in southern Africa.
- Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal debuts, at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Bavaria.
- July 31 – The Hebrew Moshava of Rishon LeZion is founded.
- August 3 – The U.S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.
- August 5 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- August 18 – The Married Women's Property Act 1882 receives royal assent in Britain; it enables women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
- August 20 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- September 4 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the United States, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that begins the electrical age.
- September 5
- The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London.
- September 13
- Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, and Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
- Selwyn College, Cambridge is founded after Queen Victoria grants a Charter of Incorporation.
- September 18 – Great 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
- October 5 – The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler.
- October 14 – The University of the Punjab is founded in modern-day Pakistan.
- October 16 – The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt, for US$7.2 million.
- October 21 – Waseda University was founded by Shigenobu Ōkuma in Japan, as predecessor name was Tokyo Specializing School.[citation needed]
- November 14 – Franklyn Leslie shoots Billy Claiborne dead, in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona.
- November 16 – The British Royal Navy's Template:Ship destroys Abari village in Niger.
- December – Zikhron Ya'akov is founded in northern Israel.
- December 6 – A transit of Venus, the last until 2004, occurs.
Date unknown
- The first International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.
- Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande returns to South Africa from England.
- A peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay.
- Pogroms in Southern Russia end.
- Nikola Tesla claims this is when he conceives the rotating magnetic field principle, which he later uses to invent his induction motor.
- The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded.
- 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 in the United States.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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University of California/Los Angeles | ![]() | Research Public Land grant | A major research university located in Los Angeles |
Naval Intelligence Division | ![]() | Intelligence agency | UK Naval intelligence, originally named the 'Foreign Intelligence Committee'. |
Panjab University | ![]() | Public | one of the most well ranked universities in India |
General Military Academy | ![]() | Responsible for the initial training for officers of the Spanish Army, and for the officers of the Civil Guard. | |
Office of Naval Intelligence | ![]() | Intelligence agency | Long established US intelligence agency targeted on 9-11 |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Alberto Pirelli | 1882 | 1971 | Deep state actor Businessperson | Italian businessman who attended the first Bilderberg and 7 others up to 1963. | |
James Byrnes | 1882 | United States South Carolina Charleston | 1972 | Politician Judge | |
Sam Rayburn | 6 January 1882 | United States Tennessee Kingston | 16 November 1961 | Lawyer | |
Arnold Rothstein | 17 January 1882 | 6 November 1928 | Criminal | ||
Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild | 25 January 1882 | 28 January 1942 | Politician Banker Rothschild family | ||
Franklin D. Roosevelt | 30 January 1882 | New York United States Hyde Park | 12 April 1945 | Politician Lawyer | Widely recalled for his 'new deal' |
Francis Cromie | 30 January 1882 | Eire Duncannon | 31 August 1918 | Spook Mariner | British intelligence officer responsible for several assassinations and coup attempts in Russia and early Soviet Union during 1917-1918, including Grigori Rasputin. Killed in shootout during Cheka raid on embassy after high-ranking Cheka leader was assassinated. |
Valentine Fleming | 17 February 1882 | Scotland Fife Newport-on-Tay | 20 May 1917 | Spook Soldier | |
Archibald Clark Kerr | 17 March 1882 | Australia | 5 July 1951 | Diplomat | |
Philip Henry Kerr | 18 April 1882 | London UK | 12 December 1940 | Diplomat Politician Editor Deep state actor | UK deep state actor who worked under Alfred Milner and Lionel George Curtis |
Getúlio Vargas | 19 April 1882 | Brazil | 24 August 1954 | Politician | President of Brazil who shot himself in 1954. |
Sylvia Pankhurst | 5 May 1882 | United Kingdom Manchester Old Trafford | 27 September 1960 | Activist | |
Roland Gwynne | 16 May 1882 | 15 November 1971 | Soldier Lawyer | Patient, close friend, and probable lover of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. | |
Mohammad Mossadegh | 16 June 1882 | Iran Tehran | 5 March 1967 | ||
Xenophon Kalamatiano | 14 July 1882 | Austria | 9 November 1923 | Spook | American intelligence agent implicated in the 1918 Allied Plot to Kill Lenin |
John Flynn | 25 October 1882 | 13 April 1964 | Journalist | ||
Felix Frankfurter | 15 November 1882 | Vienna Austria-Hungary | 22 February 1965 | Judge | "The most controversial justice of his time." |
John Scale | 27 December 1882 | Wales | 22 April 1949 | Spook |
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References
- ↑ Whitten, David O.; Whitten, Bessie Emrick (1990). Handbook of American Business History: Manufacturing. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182.