1882

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 - 1882 - 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887

• February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
• February 7 - In Mississippi City[?] the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
• March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the United States Congress.
• March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis[?]).
• March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
• April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
• May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
• Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the tubercle bacillus.
• Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator
• First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
• Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann[?] publishes his proof of the transcendence of pi

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1882 in literature:
• 1882 in music:
• 1882 in sports:

Births

• January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (+ 1956)
• January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (+ 1941)
• February 1 - Louis Stephen Saint Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada
• February 2 - James Joyce, author (+ 1941)
• February 11 - Gheorghe Cucu[?] composer.
• February 15 - John Barrymore, actor (+ 1942)
• March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician.
• March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson[?], actor (+ 1971)
• March 23 - Emmy Noether, mathematician (+ 1935)
• April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist
• May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany[?], heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (+ 1951)
• May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser[?], industrialist
• May 13 - Georges Braque, painter (+ 1963)
• May 16 - Anne McCormick[?], journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1954)
• May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (+ 1967)
• May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (+ 1949)
• June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
• October 14 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot
• November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
• December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, composer

Deaths

• February 11 - Gustav Schmidt[?], composer
• March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
• April 3 - Jesse James, outlaw
• April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
• April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist
• Charles A. Alexander[?], Victorian[?] architect