May 1882 in History

Events in History

May 6 Epping Forest, England, dedicated by Queen Victoria

May 6 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin
May 8 David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC
May 9 Telegraph Hill RR Co (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
May 13 Toba indians kill 20 members of French expedition in Argentina
May 15 May Laws-Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
May 20 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy sign the Triple Alliance
May 20 Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago
May 20 Gotthard rail tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
May 23 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa

May 4 Wilhelm Lehmann, German writer, born in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (d. 1968)
May 5 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist
May 6 Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951)
May 7 Willem Elsschot [Alfons Josephus de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1960)
May 8 Philips C Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat

May 9 Henry J. Kaiser, American ship builder and industrialist (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam), born in Sprout Brook, New York (d. 1967)

May 9 George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
May 13 Georges Braque, French cubist painter and sculptor (My bicycle) who helped develop Cubism with Pablo Picasso, born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise (d. 1963)
May 19 Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
May 20 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
May 29 Doris Ulmann, American photographer
May 31 Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)