1882
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1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1882nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 882nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1882, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1879 1880 1881 – 1882 – 1883 1884 1885 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1882 MDCCCLXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2635 |
| Armenian calendar | 1331 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6632 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 38–39 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1803–1804 |
| Bengali calendar | 1289 |
| Berber calendar | 2832 |
| British Regnal year | 45 Vict. 1 – 46 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2426 |
| Burmese calendar | 1244 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7390–7391 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4578 or 4518 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4579 or 4519 |
| Coptic calendar | 1598–1599 |
| Discordian calendar | 3048 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1874–1875 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5642–5643 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1938–1939 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1803–1804 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4982–4983 |
| Holocene calendar | 11882 |
| Igbo calendar | 882–883 |
| Iranian calendar | 1260–1261 |
| Islamic calendar | 1299–1300 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 15 (明治１５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1811–1812 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4215 |
| Minguo calendar | 30 before ROC 民前30年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 414 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2424–2425 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 2008 or 1627 or 855 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 2009 or 1628 or 856 |
Events
change- May 20 – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are set up.
- Edison builds first power station in the United States.
Births
change- January 6 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
- January 18 – A. A. Milne, British writer (d. 1956)
- January 25 – Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
- January 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States
- February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- February 2 – James Joyce, writer (d. 1941)
- February 11 – Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
- February 15 – John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
- March 14 – Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- March 15 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
- March 21 – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
- March 23 – Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
- April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
- April 18 – Isabel J. Cox, future spouse of Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1985)
- May 6 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- May 9 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
- May 9 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
- May 13 – Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
- May 16 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
- May 19 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
- May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (d. 1949)
- May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
- June 9 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
- June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
- August 14 – Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
- August 25 – Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- October 5 – Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
- October 14 – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
- October 22 – N.C. Wyeth, artist
- December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
- November 11 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)
Deaths
change- February 11 – Gustav Schmidt, composer
- March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, writer
- April 3 – Jesse James, outlaw
- April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
- April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist
- July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
- December 27 – Giovanni Losi, Italian Combonian catholic missionary
- Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect
Heads of State
change- China – Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
- Denmark – Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
- France – Jules Grévy, President of France (1879-1887)
- Germany – Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
- Holy See – Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
- Japan – Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
- Norway – Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
- Ottoman Empire – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
- Russia – Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
- Spain – Alfonso XII of Spain, King of Spain (1875-1885)
- United States – Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States (1881-1885)