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1882 (MDCCCLXXXII ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1882nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 82nd year of the19th century , and the 3rd year of the1880s 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.
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The "Elektromote ", the world's first trolleybus,[ 1] September 13 :Battle of Tell El Kebir .
May 1 May 2 – TheKilmainham Treaty , an agreement between the British government andIrish nationalist leaderCharles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released fromKilmainham Gaol inDublin .May 6 –Phoenix Park Murders in Ireland:Lord Frederick Cavendish , the newly appointedChief Secretary for Ireland , andThomas Henry Burke , his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed inPhoenix Park , Dublin, by members of theIrish National Invincibles (militant Irish republicans).May 8 – TheChinese Exclusion Act is the first law which restricts immigration into the United States.May 18 –Burnley F.C. in Northern England changes codes, fromrugby football toassociation football .May 20 – TheTriple Alliance is formed between Germany,Austria-Hungary and Italy.Photograph of the comet as seen fromCape Town by David Gill. September 18 –Great Comet of 1882 : Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight."[citation needed Virginia Woolf Franklin D. Roosevelt January 5 –Edwin Barclay , 18th president of Liberia (d.1955 )[ 10] January 6 January 9 –Otto Ruge , Norwegian general (d.1961 )[ 11] January 12 –Milton Sills , American actor (d.1930 )January 17 January 18 –A. A. Milne , British author (d.1956 )[ 12] January 20 –Johnny Torrio , Italian-born American gangster (d.1957 )January 22 –Theodore Kosloff , Russian-born actor (d.1956 )January 23 –Anna Abrikosova , SovietRoman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (d.1936 )January 25 –Virginia Woolf , English writer (d.1941 )[ 13] January 28 January 30 –Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32ndPresident of the United States (d.1945 )[ 14] January 31 –Fritz Leiber , American stage, screen actor (d.1949 )Louis St. Laurent James Joyce February 1 February 2 February 4 –E. J. Pratt , Canadian poet (d.1964 )February 5 –Louis Wagner , French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d.1960 )February 11 February 12 –Walter Nash , 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.1968 )February 15 –John Barrymore , American actor (d.1942 )February 18 –Petre Dumitrescu , Romanian general (d.1950 )February 20 –Alexander Carrick , Scottish sculptor (d.1966 )February 22 –Eric Gill , English sculptor, writer (d.1940 )February 24 –Bosman di Ravelli , South African concert pianist, composer, and writer (d.1967 )February 26 –Husband E. Kimmel , American admiral (d.1968 )February 28 Carlos Blanco Galindo René Coty Emmy Noether March 3 –Charles Ponzi , Italian-born American con man (d.1949 )March 6 –F. Burrall Hoffman , American architect (d.1980 )March 8 –Alfred A. Cunningham , first United States Marine Corps aviator (d.1939 )March 12 –Carlos Blanco Galindo , 32ndPresident of Bolivia (d.1943 )March 14 March 15 –Jim Lightbody , American middle-distance runner (d.1953 )March 18 –Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer (d.1973 )March 20 –René Coty , 17thPresident of France (d.1962 )March 22 –John W. Wilcox Jr. , American admiral (d.1942 )March 23 –Emmy Noether , German mathematician (d.1935 )March 24 –George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway , English politician, 5thGovernor-General of New Zealand (d.1943 )March 30 Leopold Stokowski Georges Braque May 2 –James F. Byrnes , American politician, Secretary of State andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1972 )May 5 May 6 –Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany , heir-apparent of EmperorWilhelm II (d.1951 )May 9 –Henry J. Kaiser , American industrialist (d.1967 )May 10 –Thurston Hall , American stage & screen actor (d.1958 )May 13 –Georges Braque , French painter (d.1963 )[ 19] May 16 –Mary Gordon , Scottish stage and screen actress (d.1963 )May 20 May 25 –Marie Doro , American stage, silent film actress (d.1956 )May 26 –Jess McMahon , American professional boxing, wrestling promoter (d.1954 )May 28 –Avery Hopwood , American playwright (d.1928 )May 30 –Wyndham Halswelle , British runner (d.1915 )
Karl Valentin Ion Antonescu Igor Stravinsky June 4 –Karl Valentin , German actor (d.1948 )June 9 –Robert Kerr , Canadian sprinter (d.1963 )June 10 –Nevile Henderson , British diplomat (d.1942 )June 12 –Roi Cooper Megrue , American playwright (d.1927 )June 15 –Ion Antonescu , Romanian prime minister, dictator (d.1946 )June 16 –Mohammad Mosaddegh , Iranian politician, 35thPrime Minister of Iran (d.1967 )June 17 June 18 –Georgi Dimitrov , 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d.1949 )June 21 –Lluís Companys , President of Catalonia (d.1940 )June 28 –Valeska Suratt , American stage actress, silent film star (d.1962 )June 29 –Ole Singstad , Norwegian-American civil engineer (d.1969 )July 1 –Bidhan Chandra Roy , Indian physician and politician,Chief Minister of West Bengal (d.1962 )July 8 –Percy Grainger , Australian composer (d.1961 )July 10 –Ima Hogg , American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d.1975 )July 17 –James Somerville , British admiral (d.1949 )July 22 –Edward Hopper , American painter (d.1967 )July 25 –George S. Rentz , United States Navy Chaplain,Navy Cross winner (d.1942 )July 27 July 31 August 11 –Rodolfo Graziani , Italian general (d.1955 )August 14 –Gisela Richter , English art historian (d.1972 )August 16 –Christian Mortensen , Danish supercentenarian, oldest verified male ever at the time of his death (d.1998 )August 19 –MacGillivray Milne ,United States Navy Captain , 27thGovernor of American Samoa (d.1959 )August 22 –Raymonde de Laroche , French aviator, first woman to receive an aviator' s license (d.1919 )August 25 –Seán T. O'Kelly , secondPresident of Ireland (d.1966 )August 26 –James Franck , German-born physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1964 )Hans Geiger September 1 –Nicholas H. Heck , American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d.1953 )September 8 –Sada Cowan , American playwright and screenwriter (d.1943 )September 10 –Károly Huszár , 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1941 )September 11 –William T. Bovie , American biophysicist, inventor (d.1958 )September 12 –Ion Agârbiceanu , Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (d.1963 )September 13 –Ramón Grau , Cuban president (d.1969 )September 16 –Robert Hichens , RMSTitanic quartermaster, man at the wheel whenTitanic hit the iceberg (d.1940 )September 22 –Wilhelm Keitel , German field marshal (d.1946 )September 29 –Lilias Armstrong , English phonetician (d.1937 )September 30 Robert H. Goddard Sybil Thorndike October 2 –Boris Shaposhnikov , Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.1945 )October 3 –A. Y. Jackson , Canadian painter (d.1974 )October 5 –Robert H. Goddard , American rocket scientist (d.1945 )October 6 –Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer (d.1937 )October 8 –Harry McClintock , American singer (d.1957 )October 14 October 17 –Giulio Gavotti , Italian aviator (d.1939 )October 20 –Bela Lugosi , Hungarian-born American actor (d.1956 )October 24 –Sybil Thorndike , British stage, film actress (d.1976 )October 25 October 30 KingGustaf VI Adolf of Sweden Max Born Zoltán Kodály Theodor Schwann Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Charles Darwin Ralph Waldo Emerson Giuseppe Garibaldi January 6 –Richard Henry Dana Jr. , founder of Dana Point, California (b.1815 )January 7 –Ignacy Łukasiewicz , Polish pharmacist, inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp (b.1822 )January 10 –Henri Jules Bataille , French general (b.1816 )January 11 –Theodor Schwann , German physiologist (b.1810 )January 13 –Juraj Dobrila , Croatian bishop (b.1812 )January 27 –Robert Christison , Scottish toxicologist, physician (b.1797 )February 5 –Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather , American writer (b.1815 )March 9 –Giovanni Lanza , Italian politician (b.1810 )March 19 –Carl Robert Jakobson , Estonian writer, politician, and teacher (b.1841 )March 21 –Constantin Bosianu , 4th Prime Minister of Romania (b.1815 )March 23 –Gustavus H. Scott , American admiral (b.1812 )March 24 –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American author (b.1807 )April 3 –Jesse James , American Western outlaw (b.1847 )April 9 –Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet, painter (b.1828 )April 11 –John Lenthall , American naval architect, shipbuilder (b.1807 )April 13 –Bruno Bauer , German philosopher and theologian (b.1809 )April 14 –Henri Giffard , French balloonist, aviation pioneer (b.1825 )April 17 April 19 –Charles Darwin , British naturalist (b.1809 )April 25 –Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner , German astrophysicist (b.1834 )April 27 –Ralph Waldo Emerson , American philosopher, writer (b.1803 )May 3 –Leonidas Smolents , Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b.1806 )[ 24] May 5 –John Rodgers , American admiral (b.1812 )June 2 –Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian patriot (b.1807 )June 3 –Christian Wilberg , German painter (b.1839 )June 22 –Pablo Buitrago y Benavente , First democratically electedSupreme Director of Nicaragua (b.1807 )[ 25] June 25 –François Jouffroy , French sculptor (b.1806 )June 30 Mary Todd Lincoln Friedrich Wöhler July 4 –Joseph Brackett , American Shaker religious leader, composer (b.1797 )July 7 –Mikhail Skobelev , Russian general (b.1843 )July 13 –Johnny Ringo , American cowboy (b.1850 )July 16 –Mary Todd Lincoln ,First Lady of the United States (b.1818 )July 19 –John William Bean , English criminal (b.1824 )July 20 –Fanny Parnell , Irish poet, founder of the Ladies' Land League (b.1848 )July 23 –George Perkins Marsh , American diplomat, philologist and pioneer environmentalist (b.1801 )August 4 –Samuel Barron Stephens , American attorney and politician (b.1814 )August 13 –William Stanley Jevons , English economist and logician (b.1835 )August 16 –Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot , French general (b.1817 )August 25 –Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian writer, physician (b.1803 )August 31 –Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz , Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b.1812 )September 8 –Joseph Liouville , French mathematician (b.1809 )September 14 –Georges Leclanché , French electrical engineer and inventor (b.1839 )September 16 –Edward Bouverie Pusey , British churchman (b.1800 )September 23 –Friedrich Wöhler , German chemist (b.1800 )September 30 –José Milla y Vidaurre , Guatemalan writer (b.1822 )October 13 –Arthur de Gobineau , French writer, demographist (b.1816 )November 7 –Julius Hübner , German painter (b.1806 )Lucy Smith Millikin November 14 –Billy Claiborne , American gunfighter (b.1860 )November 20 –Henry Draper , American astronomer (b.1837 )December 3 –Archibald Campbell Tait ,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1811 )December 6 December 9 –Lucy Smith Millikin , earlyLatter Day Saint and sister ofJoseph Smith (b.1821 )December 10 –Alexander Gardner , Scottish photographer (b.1821 )December 18 –Henry James Sr. , American theologian (b.1811 )December 21 –Francesco Hayez , Italian painter (b.1791 )December 27 –Giovanni Losi , Italian Combonian missionary (b.1838 )December 31 –Léon Gambetta , French statesman (b.1838 )^ "Elektromote" .Siemens History . 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