1882

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1879 1880 1881 – 1882 – 1883 1884 1885

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1882 Media

The "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus, in Berlin, Germany, 1882
September 13: Battle of Tell El Kebir
Photograph of the comet as seen from Cape Town by David Gill
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon.
Original color transparency of FDR taken at 1944 Official Campaign Portrait session by Leon A. Perskie, Hyde Park, New York, August 22, 1944. Gift of Beatrice Perskie Foxman and Dr. Stanley B. Foxman. August 22, 1944
Rt. Hon. Louis S. St. Laurent - Prime Minister of Canada (1948-1957).
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Carlos Blanco Galindo - 32nd President of Bolivia
Coty, député (Seine Inférieure) : photographie de presse
Portrait of Emmy Noether, around 1900

1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1882nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 882nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1882, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

May 20 – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are set up.
Edison builds first power station in the United States.

Births

January 6 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
January 18 – A. A. Milne, British writer (d. 1956)
January 25 – Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
January 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States
February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
February 2 – James Joyce, writer (d. 1941)
February 11 – Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
February 15 – John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
March 14 – Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
March 15 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
March 21 – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
March 23 – Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
April 18 – Isabel J. Cox, future spouse of Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1985)
May 6 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
May 9 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
May 9 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
May 13 – Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
May 16 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
May 19 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (d. 1949)
May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
June 9 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
August 14 – Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
August 25 – Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
October 5 – Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (d. 1945)
October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
October 14 – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
October 22 – N.C. Wyeth, artist
December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
November 11 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

February 11 – Gustav Schmidt, composer
March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, writer
April 3 – Jesse James, outlaw
April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist
July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
December 27 – Giovanni Losi, Italian Combonian catholic missionary
Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

Heads of State

China – Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark – Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France – Jules Grévy, President of France (1879-1887)
Germany – Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
Holy See – Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan – Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway – Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia – Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain – Alfonso XII of Spain, King of Spain (1875-1885)
United States – Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States (1881-1885)