1882 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1882?
- March 2, 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
- March 4, 1882 – Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
- March 24, 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- March 29, 1882 – The Knights of Columbus are established.
- April 3, 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
- April 29, 1882 – The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
- June 6, 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- June 28, 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- June 30, 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- July 10, 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- July 11, 1882 – The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- July 26, 1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- August 5, 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- August 20, 1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- September 13, 1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- September 30, 1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
- October 14, 1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
- November 2, 1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
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