Year
1882 (
MDCCCLXXXII) was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1882
January - March
April - June
- April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
- April 19 - British naturalist Charles Darwin, the originator of the concept of natural selection, dies at his home, Down House in Kent, England, aged 73.
- May 2 - Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
- May 6
- "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin;
- Chinese Exclusion Act - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA.
- May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- June 6
- A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead.
- The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo.
- June 11 - Urabi Revolt, Egypt. Popular revolt in Egypt against the Khedive and European influence in that country.
- June 30 - Assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.
July - September
October - December
Undated
Births
January - June
- January 6
- Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
- Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
- January 17 - Noah Beery, American actor (d. 1946)
- January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
- January 25 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- February 1 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- February 2 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
- February 4 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (d. 1964)
- February 15 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
- February 22 - Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (d. 1940)
- February 26 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
- February 28 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
- March 6 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {d. 1980)
- March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- March 15 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
- March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
- March 23 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- March 26 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1940)
- April 4 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- April 17 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
- April 18
- Isabel J. Cox, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985)
- Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)
- Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (d. 1948)
- April 19 - Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (d. 1954)
- April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- April 29 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
- May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- May 9
- Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d. 1967)
- George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
- May 13 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
- May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
- May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- May 30 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d. 1915)
- June 9 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- June 15 - Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (d. 1946)
- June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
July - December
- July 22 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- August 14 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
- August 17 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)
- 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- Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 19390
- September 13 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- September 19 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- October 3 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- October 5 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
- October 14 - Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
- October 14 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- October 20 - Béla Lugosi, Hungarian born actor (d. 1956)
- October 25 - Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d. 1955)
- November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- November 15 - Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1965)
- December 9 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- December 11
- Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921)
- Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- December 16
- Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
- Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)
- December 31 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
- See also .
Deaths
January - June
- January 7 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of first oil lamp (b. 1822)
- January 13 - Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
- February 6 - J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (b. 1817)
- March 9 - Giovanni Lanza, politician (b. 1810)
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- April 3 - Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
- April 17 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1801
- April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
- June 2 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- June 3 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- June 25
- François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b. 1843)
July - December
- July 4 - Joseph Brackett, Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797)
- July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- July 20 - Fanny Parnell, poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848)
- September 8 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- November 7 - Julius Hübner, painter (b. 1806)
- November 14 - Billy Claiborne, gunfighter (b. 1860)
- December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- December 6
- Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
- Louis Blanc, French politician and historian (b. 1811)
- December 18 - Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez, painter (b. 1791)
- December 31 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
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January events
- January 1 - Opening to traffic of the Gotthard Tunnel ( km ( mi)), completing the Gotthardbahn in Switzerland.
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Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Lord Augustus Loftus
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- May 17 - Provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established between Manitoba and British Columbia: the districts of Assiniboia,
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- 2 February - James Joyce, writer and poet (d.1941).
- 28 February - Pádraic Ó Conaire, journalist and writer (d.1928).
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