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.
- May 6, 1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- May 20, 1882 – The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
- June 6, 1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- June 28, 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- July 26, 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- August 5, 1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- August 20, 1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- September 5, 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- September 13, 1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- September 18, 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
- 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.
- October 16, 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
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