1882

Years: 1879 1880 1881 - 1882 - 1883 1884 1885
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1882 in art 1882 in literature 1882 in music 1882 in science 1882 in sports 1882 in Canada List of state leaders in 1882 List of religious leaders in 1882

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
March 2 – Robert Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor
March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the United States Congress
March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
May 2 – Charles Steward Parnell released
May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
June 30 – Assassin Charles Guiteau hanged
July 11 - British troops occupy Alexandria and Suez Canal
July 26 - Boers establish the republic of Stellaland in southern Africa.
August 5 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
August 20 - Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow.
September 5 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
September 13 - British troops occupy Cairo - Egypt becomes British protectorate

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the tubercle bacillus.
Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator
First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendence of pi
Married Women's Property Act in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings
Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa
Peace treaty between Paraguay and Uruguay

Births

January 6 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States
February 1 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
February 2 - James Joyce, author (d. 1941)
February 11 - Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
February 15 - John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
March 15 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
March 23 - Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
April 18 - Isabel J. Cox, future First Lady of Canada (d. 1985)
May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
May 9 - George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
May 13 - Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
May 16 - Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (d. 1949)
May 30 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
June 9 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
August 14 - Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
August 17 – Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)
August 25 - Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
October 5 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (d. 1945)
October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
October 14 - Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
December 9 - Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

February 11 - Gustav Schmidt, composer
March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
April 3 - Jesse James, outlaw
April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist
July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect