1882

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

1882 in other calendars

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

Heads of State

• 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)