Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
See also: Events:
- January 1 - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
- January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy[?] to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union[?] (AAU) is formed
- February 23 - The French Riviera[?] is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- January 26 - Battle of Dogali[?]: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians
- February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- February 6 - Josef Frings[?], archbishop of Cologne (+ 1978)
- March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile
- April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter[?] as the first female mayor in the United States.
- May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show[?] opens in London.
- July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
- L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto.
- U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
- Thomas Stevens[?] is 1st man to bicycle around the world
- Michelson-Morley experiment was performed
- Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
Births:
- January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, later head of German Abwehr.
- January 3 - August Macke[?], painter (+ 1914)
- January 19 - Alexander Woollcott[?], intellectual (+ 1943)
- January 28 - Artur Rubinstein[?], musician, conductor (+ 1982)
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff[?], author (+ 1947)
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)
- February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl[?] German/US pianist/politician.
- February 11 - John van Melle South African writer
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)
- February 20 - Carl Ebert[?], opera manager and director (+ 1980)
- February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada) + 1967)
- February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander[?], Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1950)
- March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (+ 1959)
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
- March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian, actor (+ 1961)
- March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (+ 1927)
- March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (+ 1933)
- May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
- May 26 - Paul Lukas, actor (+ 1971)
- June, 2[?] - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
- August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist
- August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria
- Marcus Mosiah Garvey, publisher, entrepreneur, black nationalist (+ 1940)
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (+ 1965)
- October 8 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor (+ 1956)
- October 22 - John Reed, journalist (+ 1920)
- November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (+ 1968)
- December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
- Bernard Montgomery, famous WWII British commander
- Pat Sullivan[?], Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
Deaths:
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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