1882

1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1882nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 882nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1882, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

The "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus,[1] in Berlin, Germany, 1882
September 13: Battle of Tell El Kebir

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1882 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1882
MDCCCLXXXII
Ab urbe condita2635
Armenian calendar1331
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ
Assyrian calendar6632
Baháʼí calendar38–39
Balinese saka calendar1803–1804
Bengali calendar1289
Berber calendar2832
British Regnal year45 Vict. 1  46 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2426
Burmese calendar1244
Byzantine calendar7390–7391
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4578 or 4518
     to 
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4579 or 4519
Coptic calendar1598–1599
Discordian calendar3048
Ethiopian calendar1874–1875
Hebrew calendar5642–5643
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1938–1939
 - Shaka Samvat1803–1804
 - Kali Yuga4982–4983
Holocene calendar11882
Igbo calendar882–883
Iranian calendar1260–1261
Islamic calendar1299–1300
Japanese calendarMeiji 15
(明治15年)
Javanese calendar1811–1812
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4215
Minguo calendar30 before ROC
民前30年
Nanakshahi calendar414
Thai solar calendar2424–2425
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

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • 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 6
    • Supposedly, the Bombay Cyclone of 1882 in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead; this alleged event has, however, been proved a hoax.
    • Battle of Embabo: The Shewan forces of Menelik II defeat the Gojjame army.
  • 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.

JulySeptember

Photograph of the comet as seen from Cape Town by David Gill
  • 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."

OctoberDecember

  • 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 at Lahore (Undivided India), 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.[7]
  • November 2 The Great Fire of Oulu destroyed 27 buildings in the downtown of Oulu, Finland.[8]
  • 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, 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.
  • Redruth Mining School opens in Cornwall.
  • 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.
  • Édouard Manet exhibits his painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère at the Paris Salon.
  • Founding of the following sports clubs:
    • Albion Rovers F.C. (through the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers) in the urban west of Scotland
    • Christchurch Rangers, the earliest predecessor of Queens Park Rangers F.C., in London.
    • Glentoran F.C. in Belfast in the north of Ireland.
    • Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club, the oldest lawn tennis club still on its original site, in the outer London suburbs.
    • Waterloo F.C., a rugby union club, as Serpentine on Merseyside in the north of England.

Births

January

February

March

Carlos Blanco Galindo
René Coty

April

May

  • May 2 James F. Byrnes, American politician, Secretary of State and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1972)
  • May 5
  • May 6 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir-apparent of Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
  • May 9 Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967)
  • May 10 Thurston Hall, American stage & screen actor (d. 1958)
  • May 13 Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)[15]
  • May 16 Mary Gordon, Scottish stage and screen actress (d. 1963)
  • May 20 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)[16]
  • May 25 Marie Doro, American stage, silent film actress (d. 1956)
  • May 26 Jess McMahon, American professional boxing, wrestling promoter (d. 1954)
  • May 28 Avery Hopwood, American playwright (d. 1928)
  • May 30 Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d. 1915)

June

Karl Valentin

July

August

September

Hans Geiger

October

Sybil Thorndike

November

December

Date unknown

Deaths

JanuaryJune

Theodor Schwann

JulyDecember

Mary Todd Lincoln

Date unknown

  • Eugénie Luce, French educator (b. 1804)[18]

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