1882

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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Countries: Australia - Canada - Germany - Ireland - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - U.S. - UK
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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo.
February 14 - Llanelli Conservative Association is founder of
March 2 - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
March 20 - British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone.
March 22 - Polygamy is made a felony by the Edmunds Act as passed by U.S. Congress.
March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
March 28 - Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
March - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of Islam or Majaddid' of the Muslim 14th century.

April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford.
April 19 - British naturalist Charles Darwin, the originator of the concept of natural selection, dies at his home, Down House in Kent, England, aged 73.
May 2 - Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
May 6
- "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin;
- Chinese Exclusion Act - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA.
May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
June 6
- A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead.
- The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo.
June 11 - Urabi Revolt, Egypt. Popular revolt in Egypt against the Khedive and European influence in that country.
June 30 - Assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.

October 5 - The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago - (currently the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) founded by Felix Adler.
October 7 - Glentoran F.C. played their very first game of Association Football against Mountavon at Ormeau Park, Belfast
October 14 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
October 16 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
November 16 - Royal Navy HMS Flirt destroys Abari village in Niger.
December 6 - Last transit of the planet Venus until 2004.
December - Zichron Yaakov founded in Northern Israel.

Nikola Tesla conceives rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor.
First International Polar Year, an international scientific program.
Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.
Married Women's Property Act 1882 in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa.
Peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay.
The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
Personal Liberty League is established to oppose temperance movement in United States.
Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
St Andrew's Ambulance Association is established in Glasgow, Scotland.
St. John Ambulance is established in Canada
Waterloo Rugby Club is founded.
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.)
Albion Rovers F.C. were founded with the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs Albion and Rovers.
Redruth Mining School is founded
Queens Park Rangers F.C. is founded.
Creation of Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club.
Burnley F.C. are founded.