1882 Calendar
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1882 Historical Event(s)
March 2, 1882
– Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
March 4, 1882
– Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
April 29, 1882
– The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
May 20, 1882
– The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
June 6, 1882
– More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
June 28, 1882
– The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
July 26, 1882
– The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
September 18, 1882
– The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
September 30, 1882
– Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
Who Were Born On 1882?
January 17, 1882
– Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
January 30, 1882
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
February 1, 1882
– Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
February 26, 1882
– Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
March 14, 1882
– Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
May 25, 1882
– Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
July 21, 1882
– David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
September 13, 1882
– Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
December 10, 1882
– Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
December 16, 1882
– Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)