Events in History in 1882

Mar 2 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor

Mar 3 NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
Mar 4 Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
Mar 6 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
Mar 11 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey

Mar 11 Fridtjof Nansen sets out on a sea voyage to study Arctic zoology

Mar 16 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
Mar 19 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Mar 23 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act

Mar 24 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

Mar 25 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
Mar 29 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men

Apr 3 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph

Apr 10 Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
Apr 13 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia

Apr 29 The "Elektromote" - forerunner of the trolleybus - is tested by Werner von Siemens in Berlin

May 6 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
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
Jun 2 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
Jun 5 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
Jun 6 Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
Jun 6 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
Jun 6 Ethiopia: Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
Jun 10 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
Jun 16 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
Jun 17 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
Jul 4 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco

Jul 6 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
Jul 11 British fleet bombards Alexandria
Jul 12 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, D.C.
Jul 13 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
Jul 18 Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
Aug 3 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
Aug 5 Martial law is imposed in Japan
Aug 5 Standard Oil of New Jersey is established
Aug 7 Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die
Aug 8 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
Aug 14 Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief Cetewayo
Aug 16 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
Sep 3 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die

Sep 4 in its 1st large-scale test, Thomas Edison's light bulb is used to light NY's Pearl Street Station

Sep 5 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
Sep 10 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
Sep 12 Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
Sep 13 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
Sep 14 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
Sep 15 British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
Sep 18 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
Oct 14 University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
Oct 16 The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

Oct 28 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association
Nov 5 Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast" premieres
Nov 15 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba, Niger
Nov 16 British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger
Dec 2 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
Dec 6 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
Dec 10 John Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres
Dec 11 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
Dec 11 Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
Dec 14 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
Dec 22 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison