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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
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* [[January 2]]
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** 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>
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* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[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.
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* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Holborn Viaduct power station]] in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.
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* [[February 3]] &ndash; American showman [[P. T. Barnum]] acquires the elephant [[Jumbo]], from the [[London Zoo]].
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* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Roderick Maclean]] fails in an attempt to assassinate [[Queen Victoria]], at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]].
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* [[March 18]] (March 6 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; The [[Principality of Serbia]] becomes the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] following a proclamation.
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* [[March 20]] &ndash; 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.
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* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Polygamy]] is made a felony by the [[Edmunds Act]], passed by the [[United States Congress]].
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* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Robert Koch]] announces the discovery of the [[bacterium]] responsible for [[tuberculosis]] (''[[Mycobacterium tuberculosis]]'').
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* [[March 28]]
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** Republican [[Jules Ferry]] makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (''laique'') and obligatory.
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** German medical products company ''[[Beiersdorf]]'' is founded.
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* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[Knights of Columbus]], a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[fraternal service organization]], is founded in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].
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=== April&ndash;June ===
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* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[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]].
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* [[April 29]] &ndash; The [[Elektromote]], the world's first [[trolleybus]], begins operation in [[Berlin]].
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* [[May]] &ndash; [[Burnley F.C.]] in the north of England changes codes, from [[Rugby union]] to [[Association football]].
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* [[May 1]] &ndash; The [[Berlin Philharmonic]] orchestra is founded in Germany, as ''Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle''.
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* [[May 2]] &ndash; 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]].
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* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[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).
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* [[May 8]] &ndash; The [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] is the first important law which restricts immigration into the United States.
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* [[May 20]] &ndash; The [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] is formed between Germany, [[Austria-Hungary]] and Italy.
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* [[June]]
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** [[Ferdinand von Lindemann]] publishes his proof of the [[transcendental number|transcendentality]] of [[pi]].
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** [[St Andrew's Ambulance Association]] is founded in [[Glasgow]], Scotland; [[St. John Ambulance Canada]] is also founded this year.
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* [[June 11]] &ndash; The [['Urabi revolt]] breaks out in [[Egypt]] against [[Khedive]] [[Tewfik Pasha]] and European influence in that country.
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* [[June 28]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-French Convention of 1882]] is signed, marking territorial boundaries between [[Guinea]] and [[Sierra Leone]].
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* [[June 30]] &ndash; U.S. presidential assassin [[Charles J. Guiteau]] is hanged in Washington, D.C.
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=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 11]]&ndash;[[July 13|13]] &ndash; [[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]].
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* [[July 23]] The [[Imo Incident]] occurs in [[Seoul]], Korea as a result of bad rations and payment towards soldiers of the [[Old Korean Army]].
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* [[July 26]]
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** [[Boer]]s establish the republic of [[Stellaland]] in southern Africa.
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** [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Parsifal]]'' debuts, at the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]] in [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]].
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* [[July 31]] &ndash; The Hebrew Moshava of [[Rishon LeZion]] is founded.
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* [[August 3]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Congress]] passes the [[1882 Immigration Act]].
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* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Standard Oil of New Jersey]] is established.
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* [[August 18]] &ndash; 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.
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* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[1812 Overture]]'' debuts in Moscow.
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* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[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.
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* [[September 5]]
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**The first United States [[Labor Day]] parade is held in New York City.
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**[[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.]] is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London.
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* [[September 13]]
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**[[Anglo-Egyptian War]]: British troops occupy [[Cairo]], and [[Egypt]] becomes a British [[protectorate]].
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**[[Selwyn College, Cambridge]] is founded after [[Queen Victoria]] grants a Charter of Incorporation.
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* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[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."
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=== October&ndash;December ===
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* [[October 5]] &ndash; The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler.
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* [[October 14]] &ndash; The [[University of the Punjab]] is founded in modern-day [[Pakistan]].
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* [[October 16]] &ndash; 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&nbsp;million.
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* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Waseda University]] was founded by [[Shigenobu Ōkuma]] in [[Japan]], as predecessor name was Tokyo Specializing School.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
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* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Franklyn Leslie]] shoots [[Billy Claiborne]] dead, in the streets of [[Tombstone, Arizona]].
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* [[November 16]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]]'s {{HMS|Flirt}} destroys Abari village in [[Niger]].
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* [[December]] &ndash; [[Zikhron Ya'akov]] is founded in northern Israel.
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* [[December 6]] &ndash; A [[Transit of Venus, 1882|transit of Venus]], the last until [[2004]], occurs.
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=== Date unknown ===
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* The first [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific program, begins.
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* [[Zulu people|Zulu]] king [[Cetshwayo kaMpande]] returns to South Africa from England.
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* A peace treaty is signed between [[Paraguay]] and [[Uruguay]].
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* [[Pogrom]]s in [[Southern Federal District|Southern Russia]] end.
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* [[Nikola Tesla]] claims this is when he conceives the [[rotating magnetic field]] principle, which he later uses to invent his [[induction motor]].
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* The British [[Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys|Chartered Institute of Patent Agents]] (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded.
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* The [[Personal Liberty League]] is established, to oppose the [[temperance movement in the United States]].
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* [[Carolyn Merrick]] is elected president of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] in the United States.
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Latest revision as of 06:32, 1 March 2021

1872 < 1873 < 1874 < 1875 < 1876 < 1877 < 1878 <1879 < 1880 < 1881 < 1882 > 1883 > 1884 > 1885 > 1886 > 1887 > 1888 > 1889 > 1890 > 1891 > 1892
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In a cartoon published in the magazine Puck, the Standard Oil Company is depicted as a menacing octopus
year 1882

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown


 

Events

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
Naval Intelligence DivisionGroup.pngIntelligence agencyUK Naval intelligence, originally named the 'Foreign Intelligence Committee'.
Panjab UniversitySeal Panjab University.jpgPublicone of the most well ranked universities in India
General Military AcademyCoat of Arms of the Spanish Army General Military Academy.pngResponsible for the initial training for officers of the Spanish Army, and for the officers of the Civil Guard.
University of California/Los AngelesThe University of California UCLA.pngResearch
Public
Land grant		A major research university located in Los Angeles
Office of Naval IntelligenceFinal ONI seal.jpgIntelligence agencyLong established US intelligence agency targeted on 9-11

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Alberto Pirelli18821971Deep state actor
Businessperson		Italian businessman who attended the first Bilderberg and 7 others up to 1963.
James Byrnes1882United States
South Carolina
Charleston		1972Politician
Judge
Sam Rayburn6 January 1882United States
Tennessee
Kingston		16 November 1961Lawyer
Arnold Rothstein17 January 18826 November 1928Criminal
Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild25 January 188228 January 1942Politician
Banker
Rothschild family
Franklin D. Roosevelt30 January 1882New York
United States
Hyde Park		12 April 1945Politician
Lawyer		Widely recalled for his 'new deal'
Francis Cromie30 January 1882Eire
Duncannon		31 August 1918Spook
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 Fleming17 February 1882Scotland
Fife
Newport-on-Tay		20 May 1917Spook
Soldier		Father of Ian Fleming, killed in 1917 in WWI
Archibald Clark Kerr17 March 1882Australia5 July 1951Diplomat
Philip Henry Kerr18 April 1882London
UK		12 December 1940Diplomat
Politician
Editor
Deep state actor		UK deep state actor who worked under Alfred Milner and Lionel George Curtis
Getúlio Vargas19 April 1882Brazil24 August 1954PoliticianPresident of Brazil who shot himself in 1954.
Sylvia Pankhurst5 May 1882United Kingdom
Manchester
Old Trafford		27 September 1960Activist
Roland Gwynne16 May 188215 November 1971Soldier
Lawyer		Patient, close friend, and probable lover of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams.
Mohammad Mossadegh16 June 1882Iran
Tehran		5 March 1967
Xenophon Kalamatiano14 July 1882Austria9 November 1923SpookAmerican intelligence agent implicated in the 1918 Allied Plot to Kill Lenin
John Flynn25 October 188213 April 1964Journalist
Felix Frankfurter15 November 1882Vienna
Austria-Hungary		22 February 1965Judge"The most controversial justice of his time."
John Scale27 December 1882Wales22 April 1949Spook
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References

  1. ↑ Whitten, David O.; Whitten, Bessie Emrick (1990). Handbook of American Business History: Manufacturing. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 182.
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