Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1882. This year saw 72 significant events. 17 notable figures were born. 8 notable figures passed away.
German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus, which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), establishing germ theory
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas.
US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Australia beats England by 7 runs in a match dubbed the "Death of English cricket" as Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth takes 14-90 (7-46 and 7-44)
First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
"Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum (26) weds producer Maud Gage (21) at Gage's family home in Fayetteville, New York
Australian soprano Nellie Melba (21) weds Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong in Brisbane; separate in 1883, marriage dissolved in 1900
Standard Oil Company was a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911.
First US ski club forms in Berlin, New Hampshire
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the...
Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
France government of Gambetta falls
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg
Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand for Britain with the first cargo of frozen meat
Australian cricket opening bowlers Joey Palmer (7/68) and Edwin Evans (3/64) dismiss England for 133 in 2nd Test; first Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
Britain's first electric trams run in East London
Milan Obrenović IV (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Обреновић, romanized: Milan Obrenović; 22 August 1854 – 11 February 1901) reigned as the Prince of Serbia from 10 June 1868 until 1882, and then King of...
Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey
Morgan Seth Earp (April 24, 1851 – March 18, 1882) was an American sheriff and lawman.
The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E.
Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
Battle of Hanoi: French forces led by naval captain Henri Rivière capture the Citadel of Hanoi in less than an hour inflicting heavy losses on the Vietnamese defenders
David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC
Telegraph Hill RR Co. (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
Toba indians kill 20 members of French expedition in Argentina, including explorer Jules Nicolas Crevaux
6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 people (disputed event)
Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria, Egypt, kills 50 Europeans
17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882.
First ocean pier in the US is completed in Washington, D.C.
Train derails near Tcherny, Russia, killing 200
Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
The Immigration Act of 1917, or the Burnett Act, was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons,...
Martial law is imposed in Japan
Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead
Snow falls on Lake Michigan
Yiddish theater opens in New York City with Abraham Goldfaden's operetta "Di Kishefmakhern" (The Sorceress)
The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882.
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States.
First international conference to promote anti-Semitism meets in Dresden, Germany (Congress for the Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops defeat Egyptian force in the decisive battle of the Anglo-Egytian War
British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
Pacific Stock Exchange opens as Local Security Board
Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds was a 20-acre (8.1 ha) site in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
University of the Punjab is founded in Lahore in present-day Pakistan
The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their first season in the American Association
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys villages of Abari and Asaba on the Forcado River in Niger, in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys village of Torofani on the Forcado River in Niger, in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
Natura Artis Magistra (Latin for "Nature is the teacher of art"), commonly known just as Artis, is a zoo and botanical garden in the centre of Amsterdam.
US Patent Office grants patent #268503 for the exclusive right to make, use, or sell "animal-shaped buildings" to James V. Lafferty of Philadelphia; three novelty elephants are built: Elephant Bazaar in South Atlantic City, New Jersey (1881); Light of Asia in South Cape May, New Jersey (1884); and E
The atmosphere of Venus is the very dense layer of gases surrounding the planet Venus.
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op. 89, is a piece for mixed choir and orchestra by Johannes Brahms. The work uses a text from Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris (which had earlier been set for...
Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play.
A. A. Milne, English writer, known for english writer, was born on 1882-01-18. Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy…
Virginia Woolf, English modernist writer, known for english modernist writer, was born on 1882-01-25.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is born
Louis St. Laurent is born
John Barrymore, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1882-02-15. John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio.
Leopold Stokowski, British conductor, known for british conductor, was born on 1882-04-18.
Getúlio Vargas is born
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, known for american industrialist, was born on 1882-05-09.
Mohammad Mosaddegh is born
Harold Gillies zealand plastic surgeon, known for new zealand plastic surgeon, was born on 1882-06-17.
Igor Stravinsky musician, known for russian composer, was born on 1882-06-17. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S.
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, known for german field marshal, was born on 1882-09-22.
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal, known for german field marshal, was born on 1882-10-03.
Bela Lugosi, American actor, known for hungarian actor, was born on 1882-10-20. Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor.
Jack Hobbs, South African athlete, known for english cricketer, was born on 1882-12-16.
Pascual Orozco revolutionary leader, known for mexican revolutionary leader, was born on 1882-01-28. Pascual Orozco Vázquez, Jr.
Fred McLeod is born
John William Draper, English british-academic, known for british-academic, died on 1882-01-04.
Ignacy Łukasiewicz dies
Theodor Schwann, German physiologist, known for german physiologist, died on 1882-01-11. Theodor Schwann was a German physician and physiologist.
Jesse James, American outlaw, known for american outlaw, died on 1882-04-03. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, known for american philosopher, died on 1882-04-27.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot and general, known for italian patriot and general, died on 1882-06-02. Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican.
Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of james a. garfield, known for assassin of james a. garfield, died on 1882-06-30.
Mary Todd Lincoln dies
German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus, which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), establishing germ theory
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas.
US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Australia beats England by 7 runs in a match dubbed the "Death of English cricket" as Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth takes 14-90 (7-46 and 7-44)
First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
"Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum (26) weds producer Maud Gage (21) at Gage's family home in Fayetteville, New York
Australian soprano Nellie Melba (21) weds Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong in Brisbane; separate in 1883, marriage dissolved in 1900
Standard Oil Company was a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911.
First US ski club forms in Berlin, New Hampshire
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the...
Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
France government of Gambetta falls
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg
Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand for Britain with the first cargo of frozen meat
Australian cricket opening bowlers Joey Palmer (7/68) and Edwin Evans (3/64) dismiss England for 133 in 2nd Test; first Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
Britain's first electric trams run in East London
Milan Obrenović IV (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Обреновић, romanized: Milan Obrenović; 22 August 1854 – 11 February 1901) reigned as the Prince of Serbia from 10 June 1868 until 1882, and then King of...
Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey
Morgan Seth Earp (April 24, 1851 – March 18, 1882) was an American sheriff and lawman.
The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E.
Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
Battle of Hanoi: French forces led by naval captain Henri Rivière capture the Citadel of Hanoi in less than an hour inflicting heavy losses on the Vietnamese defenders
David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC
Telegraph Hill RR Co. (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
Toba indians kill 20 members of French expedition in Argentina, including explorer Jules Nicolas Crevaux
6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 people (disputed event)
Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria, Egypt, kills 50 Europeans
17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882.
First ocean pier in the US is completed in Washington, D.C.
Train derails near Tcherny, Russia, killing 200
Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
The Immigration Act of 1917, or the Burnett Act, was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons,...
Martial law is imposed in Japan
Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead
Snow falls on Lake Michigan
Yiddish theater opens in New York City with Abraham Goldfaden's operetta "Di Kishefmakhern" (The Sorceress)
The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882.
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States.
First international conference to promote anti-Semitism meets in Dresden, Germany (Congress for the Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops defeat Egyptian force in the decisive battle of the Anglo-Egytian War
British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
Pacific Stock Exchange opens as Local Security Board
Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds was a 20-acre (8.1 ha) site in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
University of the Punjab is founded in Lahore in present-day Pakistan
The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their first season in the American Association
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys villages of Abari and Asaba on the Forcado River in Niger, in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys village of Torofani on the Forcado River in Niger, in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
Natura Artis Magistra (Latin for "Nature is the teacher of art"), commonly known just as Artis, is a zoo and botanical garden in the centre of Amsterdam.
US Patent Office grants patent #268503 for the exclusive right to make, use, or sell "animal-shaped buildings" to James V. Lafferty of Philadelphia; three novelty elephants are built: Elephant Bazaar in South Atlantic City, New Jersey (1881); Light of Asia in South Cape May, New Jersey (1884); and E
The atmosphere of Venus is the very dense layer of gases surrounding the planet Venus.
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op. 89, is a piece for mixed choir and orchestra by Johannes Brahms. The work uses a text from Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris (which had earlier been set for...
Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play.
A. A. Milne, English writer, known for english writer, was born on 1882-01-18. Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy…
Virginia Woolf, English modernist writer, known for english modernist writer, was born on 1882-01-25.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is born
Louis St. Laurent is born
John Barrymore, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1882-02-15. John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio.
Leopold Stokowski, British conductor, known for british conductor, was born on 1882-04-18.
Getúlio Vargas is born
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, known for american industrialist, was born on 1882-05-09.
Mohammad Mosaddegh is born
Harold Gillies zealand plastic surgeon, known for new zealand plastic surgeon, was born on 1882-06-17.
Igor Stravinsky musician, known for russian composer, was born on 1882-06-17. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S.
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, known for german field marshal, was born on 1882-09-22.
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal, known for german field marshal, was born on 1882-10-03.
Bela Lugosi, American actor, known for hungarian actor, was born on 1882-10-20. Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor.
Jack Hobbs, South African athlete, known for english cricketer, was born on 1882-12-16.
Pascual Orozco revolutionary leader, known for mexican revolutionary leader, was born on 1882-01-28. Pascual Orozco Vázquez, Jr.
Fred McLeod is born
John William Draper, English british-academic, known for british-academic, died on 1882-01-04.
Ignacy Łukasiewicz dies
Theodor Schwann, German physiologist, known for german physiologist, died on 1882-01-11. Theodor Schwann was a German physician and physiologist.
Jesse James, American outlaw, known for american outlaw, died on 1882-04-03. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, known for american philosopher, died on 1882-04-27.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot and general, known for italian patriot and general, died on 1882-06-02. Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican.
Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of james a. garfield, known for assassin of james a. garfield, died on 1882-06-30.
Mary Todd Lincoln dies