1882 Explained
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]
- Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.[2]
- 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.[3]
- January 12 - Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.[4]
- 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 1
- 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 18 - Burnley F.C. in Northern England changes codes, from rugby football to association football.
- May 20 - The Triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- June
- June 6
- 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 Joseon Army.
- July 26
- 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, the company later known as ExxonMobil, 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.
- August 29 - The Australian cricket team historically defeats England at The Oval for the first time on English soil, a humiliation for the English and the origin for the Ashes test series.
- 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 13
British troops occupy Cairo, and Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
- 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
Date unknown
Births
January
- January 5 – Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (d. 1955)[7]
- January 6
- January 12 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
- January 17
- January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)[8]
- January 20 - Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1957)
- January 22 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor (d. 1956)
- January 23 - Anna Abrikosova, Soviet Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (d. 1936)
- January 25 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)[9]
- January 28
- January 30 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)[10]
- January 31 - Fritz Leiber, American stage, screen actor (d. 1949)
February
- February 1
- February 2
- February 4 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
- February 5 - Louis Wagner, French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d. 1960)
- February 12 - Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1968)
- February 15 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
- February 18 - Petre Dumitrescu, Romanian general (d. 1950)
- February 20 - Alexander Carrick, Scottish sculptor (d. 1966)
- February 22 - Eric Gill, English sculptor, writer (d. 1940)
- February 26 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
- February 28
March
- March 3 - Charles Ponzi, Italian-born American con man (d. 1949)
- March 6 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
- March 8 - Alfred A. Cunningham, first United States Marine Corps aviator (d. 1939)
- March 12 - Carlos Blanco Galindo, 32nd President of Bolivia (d. 1943)
- March 14
- March 15 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (d. 1953)
- March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
- March 20 - René Coty, 17th President of France (d. 1962)
- March 22 - John W. Wilcox Jr., American admiral (d. 1942)
- March 23 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- March 24 - George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)
- March 30 - Melanie Klein, Austrian-born British child psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
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)[14]
- May 16 - Mary Gordon, Scottish stage and screen actress (d. 1963)
- May 20
- 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
- June 4 - Karl Valentin, German actor (d. 1948)
- June 9 - Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- June 10 - Nevile Henderson, British diplomat (d. 1942)
- June 12 - Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (d. 1927)
- June 15 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister, dictator (d. 1946)
- June 16 - Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
- June 17
- June 18 - Georgi Dimitrov, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)
- June 21 - Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia (d. 1940)
- June 28 - Valeska Suratt, American stage actress, silent film star (d. 1962)
- June 29 - Ole Singstad, Norwegian-American civil engineer (d. 1969)
July
- July 1 - Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1962)
- July 8 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
- July 10 - Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
- July 17 - James Somerville, British admiral (d. 1949)
- July 22 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- July 25 - George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross winner (d. 1942)
- July 27
August
- August 11 - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (d. 1955)
- August 14 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
- August 16 - Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian, oldest verified male ever at the time of his death (d. 1998)
- August 19 - MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain, 27th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1959)
- August 22 - Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, first woman to receive an aviators license (d. 1919)
- August 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- August 26 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
September
- September 1 - Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d. 1953)
- September 8 - Sada Cowan, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1943)
- September 10 - Károly Huszár, 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1941)
- September 11 - William T. Bovie, American biophysicist, inventor (d. 1958)
- September 12 - Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (d. 1963)
- September 13 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- September 16 - Robert Hichens, RMS Titanic quartermaster, man at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg (d. 1940)
- September 22 - Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- September 29 - Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (d. 1937)
October
- October 2 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1945)
- October 3 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- October 5 - Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
- October 8 - Harry McClintock, American singer (d. 1957)
- October 14
- October 17 - Giulio Gavotti, Italian aviator (d. 1939)
- October 20 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (d. 1956)
- October 24 - Sybil Thorndike, British stage, film actress (d. 1976)
- October 30
November
December
Date unknown
Deaths
January - June
- January 6 - Richard Henry Dana Jr., founder of Dana Point, California (b. 1815)
- January 7 - Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist, inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp (b. 1822)
- January 10 - Henri Jules Bataille, French general (b. 1816)
- January 11 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
- January 13 - Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
- January 27 - Robert Christison, Scottish toxicologist, physician (b. 1797)
- February 5 - Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (b. 1815)
- March 9 - Giovanni Lanza, Italian politician (b. 1810)
- March 19 - Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician, and teacher (b. 1841)
- March 21 - Constantin Bosianu, 4th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1815)
- March 23 - Gustavus H. Scott, American admiral (b. 1812)
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- April 3 - Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 9 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet, painter (b. 1828)
- April 11 - John Lenthall, American naval architect, shipbuilder (b. 1807)
- April 14 - Henri Giffard, French balloonist, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
- April 17
- April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
- April 25 - Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (b. 1834)
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, writer (b. 1803)
- May 3 - Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
- May 5 - John Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1812)
- June 2 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- June 3 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- June 22 - Pablo Buitrago y Benavente, First democratically elected Supreme Director of Nicaragua (b. 1807)[18]
- June 25 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
July - December
- July 4 - Joseph Brackett, American Shaker religious leader, composer (b. 1797)
- July 7 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b. 1843)
- July 13 - Johnny Ringo, American cowboy (b. 1850)
- July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- July 19 - John William Bean, English criminal (b. 1824)
- July 20 - Fanny Parnell, Irish poet, founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848)
- August 4 - Samuel Barron Stephens, American attorney and politician (b. 1814)
- August 13 - William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician (b. 1835)
- August 16 - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, French general (b. 1817)
- August 25 - Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian writer, physician (b. 1803)
- August 31 - Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b. 1812)
- September 8 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- September 14 - Georges Leclanché, French electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1839)
- September 16 - Edward Bouverie Pusey, British churchman (b. 1800)
- September 23 - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (b. 1800)
- September 30 - José Milla y Vidaurre, Guatemalan writer (b. 1822)
- October 13 - Arthur de Gobineau, French writer, demographist (b. 1816)
- November 7 - Julius Hübner, German painter (b. 1806)
- November 14 - Billy Claiborne, American gunfighter (b. 1860)
- November 20 - Henry Draper, American astronomer (b. 1837)
- December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- December 6
- December 9 – Lucy Smith Millikin, early Latter Day Saint and sister of Joseph Smith (b. 1821)
- December 10 – Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (b. 1821)
- December 18 - Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (b. 1791)
- December 31 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
Date unknown
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