Major Events
- Jan 2 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
- Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his final opera "Parsifal"
- Jan 15 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
- Jan 15 French explorer Jules Nicholas Crevaux is the first European to discover an Inca City near Sarta, north-west Argentina
- Jan 17 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her office
- Jan 25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
- Jan 26 France government of Gambetta falls
- Feb 3 Circus owner P. T. Barnum buys his world-famous elephant Jumbo
- Feb 6 The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
- Feb 7 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
- More 1882 Events
1882 in Music
- Jul 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
- Aug 20 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow
1882 in Sport
- Aug 29 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)
- Oct 6 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
Did You Know?
Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
A. A. Milne
Virginia Woolf
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James Joyce
Wilhelm Keitel
Günther von Kluge
John Barrymore
Samuel Goldwyn
Bela Lugosi
Fred McLeod
Jack HobbsMore People Born in 1882
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Jesse James
Charles Darwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Charles J. GuiteauMore 1882 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1882
- Apr 4 Actress Sarah Bernhardt marries diplomat Aristide Damala in London
- Aug 2 US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
- Dec 22 Australian soprano Nellie Melba (21) weds Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong in Brisbane; separate in 1883, marriage dissolved in 1900
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Chester A. Arthur
Otto von Bismarck
William Gladstone