Major Events
- Jan 2 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
- Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his final opera "Parsifal"
- Jan 15 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
- Jan 15 French explorer Jules Nicholas Crevaux is the first European to discover an Inca City near Sarta, north-west Argentina
- Jan 17 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her office
- Jan 25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
- Jan 26 France government of Gambetta falls
- Feb 3 Circus owner P. T. Barnum buys his world-famous elephant Jumbo
- Feb 6 The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
- Feb 7 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
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1882 in Music
- Jul 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
- Aug 20 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow
1882 in Sport
- Aug 29 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)
- Oct 6 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
Did You Know?
Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
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Famous Weddings in 1882
- Apr 4 Actress Sarah Bernhardt marries diplomat Aristide Damala in London
- Aug 2 US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
- Dec 22 Australian soprano Nellie Melba (21) weds Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong in Brisbane; separate in 1883, marriage dissolved in 1900