1882

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1879 1880 1881 - 1882 - 1883 1884 1885 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1882 in art
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\n1882 in music
\n1882 in science
\n1882 in sports
\n1882 in Canada\n----\nList of state leaders in 1882
\nList of religious leaders in 1882\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut\n* February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.\n* March 2 – Robert Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor\n* March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the United States Congress\n* March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).\n* March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.\n* April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.\n* May 2 – Charles Steward Parnell released\n* May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.\n* June 30 – Assassin Charles Guiteau hanged\n* July 11 - British troops occupy Alexandria and Suez Canal\n* July 26 - Boers establish the republic of Stellaland in southern Africa.\n* August 5 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.\n* August 20 - Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow.\n* September 5 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.\n* September 13 - British troops occupy Cairo - Egypt becomes British protectorate \n*Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the tubercle bacillus.\n*Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator\n*First Polar Year, an international scientific program.\n*Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendence of pi\n* Married Women's Property Act in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings\n* Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa\n* Peace treaty between Paraguay and Uruguay

Births

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

Deaths

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