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1882 Calendar

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•  February 22, 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
•  March 2, 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
•  May 20, 1882 – The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
•  June 6, 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
•  June 28, 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
•  June 30, 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
•  July 26, 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
•  August 20, 1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
•  October 14, 1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
•  November 2, 1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882

•  April 17, 1882 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
•  May 7, 1882 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
•  May 20, 1882 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
•  June 21, 1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)
•  June 27, 1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
•  October 14, 1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
•  November 11, 1882 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
•  December 11, 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman (d. 1947)
•  December 28, 1882 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer (d. 1944)