Notable Historical Events - 1882
1882 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust |
Jan 13 |
Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal" |
Jan 15 |
1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH) |
Jan 17 |
1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office |
Jan 25 |
Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms |
Jan 26 |
France government of Gambetta falls |
Feb 2 |
Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn |
Feb 3 |
Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo |
Feb 7 |
Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss |
Feb 10 |
Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg |
Feb 12 |
Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam |
Feb 15 |
1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin |
Feb 17 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground |
Feb 21 |
NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours |
Feb 22 |
With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize |
Feb 22 |
The Serbian kingdom is refounded. |
Feb 28 |
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U |
Mar 3 |
NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings |
Mar 4 |
Britain's first electric trams run in East London. |
Mar 6 |
Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king |
Mar 11 |
Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ |
Mar 16 |
US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross |
Mar 18 |
Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone |
Mar 22 |
Edmunds Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under the act |
Mar 24 |
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
Mar 25 |
1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC) |
Mar 29 |
Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men |
Apr 3 |
Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks |
Apr 3 |
American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. |
Apr 10 |
Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii) |
Apr 13 |
Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia |
Apr 29 |
The "Elektromote" - forerunner of the trolleybus - is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin. |
May 6 |
Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration |
May 6 |
Epping Forest, England, dedicated by Queen Victoria |
May 6 |
Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin. |
May 8 |
David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC |
May 9 |
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized |
May 13 |
Toba indians killed 20 members of French expedition |
May 15 |
May Laws-Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania |
May 16 |
8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00 |
May 20 |
Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance |
May 20 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago |
May 20 |
St Gotthard rail tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens |
May 23 |
6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa |
May 27 |
10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5 |
Jun 2 |
Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris |
Jun 5 |
Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die |
Jun 6 |
Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 |
Jun 6 |
Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC |
Jun 6 |
The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
Jun 8 |
16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43 |
Jun 10 |
Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans |
Jun 16 |
17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa |
Jun 17 |
Tornado kills 130 in Iowa |
Jun 24 |
NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty |
Jul 4 |
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF |
Jul 6 |
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine |
Jul 11 |
British fleet bombs Alexandria |
Jul 12 |
1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC |
Jul 13 |
200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia |
Jul 17 |
6th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-1 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-2) |
Jul 18 |
Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty |
Jul 28 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Beirut |
Aug 3 |
Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
Aug 5 |
Martial law is imposed in Japan. |
Aug 5 |
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. |
Aug 7 |
Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die |
Aug 8 |
Snow falls on Lake Michigan |
Aug 14 |
Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo |
Aug 16 |
British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria |
Aug 20 |
Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow |
Aug 29 |
Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" |
Aug 29 |
Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44) |
Sep 3 |
French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die |
Sep 4 |
1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station |
Sep 5 |
10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC |
Sep 10 |
1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
Sep 12 |
Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza |
Sep 13 |
Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt |
Sep 14 |
British General Wolseley reaches Cairo |
Sep 15 |
British general Wolseley occupies Cairo |
Sep 18 |
Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) |
Sep 25 |
1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester) |
Oct 6 |
1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 |
Oct 7 |
1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 |
Oct 14 |
University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. |
Oct 16 |
The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. |
Oct 19 |
Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley |
Oct 24 |
Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis |
Oct 28 |
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association |
Nov 5 |
Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast" premieres |
Nov 15 |
British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba, Niger |
Nov 16 |
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger |
Dec 2 |
Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium |
Dec 6 |
Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit |
Dec 10 |
John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres |
Dec 11 |
Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe" |
Dec 11 |
Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris |
Dec 14 |
Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo |
Dec 22 |
1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison |
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