Important Historical Events of the year 1882, Year 1882 in History

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What happened in the year 1882?

Date	Event
March 2, 1882	Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
March 4, 1882	Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
March 6, 1882	The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
March 24, 1882	Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.[31]
March 29, 1882	The Knights of Columbus is established.
April 3, 1882	American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
April 25, 1882	French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
May 6, 1882	Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
May 6, 1882	The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
May 20, 1882	The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
June 6, 1882	The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
June 28, 1882	The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
June 30, 1882	Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
July 10, 1882	War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 11, 1882	The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
July 26, 1882	Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
July 26, 1882	The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
August 5, 1882	Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity at the center of the breakup of Standard Oil.[7]
August 20, 1882	Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
September 4, 1882	The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
September 5, 1882	The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
September 13, 1882	Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
September 18, 1882	The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
September 30, 1882	Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
October 16, 1882	The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
November 2, 1882	The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.
December 6, 1882	Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
December 16, 1882	Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.