1882 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1882 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal
[edit] Events
- 25 January - London Chamber of Commerce founded.[1]
- 2 March - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.[2]
- 25 April - Kilmainham Treaty made between the British government and the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell.
- 6 May - Phoenix Park Murders: "Invincibles", militant Irish republicans, kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin.[2]
- 11 July - 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.[3]
- 13 September - Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, Egypt becomes British protectorate.[3]
- 25 November - The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Iolanthe is first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London.[2]
- 4 December - Queen Victoria opens the Royal Courts of Justice in London.[4]
[edit] Undated
- Married Women's Property Act 1882 in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
- The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
- St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is established in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Jumbo the elephant is sold to the American showman P. T. Barnum for $10,000.
- Regent Street Polytechnic, Britain's first polytechnic, opens in London.[1]
- Henry Sidgwick founds the Society for Psychical Research.[1]
[edit] Births
- 18 January - A. A. Milne, author (died 1956)
- 25 January - Virginia Woolf, writer (died 1941)
- 22 February - Eric Gill, sculptor and writer (died 1940)
- 18 April - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (died 1977)
- 30 May - Wyndham Halswelle, runner (died 1915)
- 27 July - Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer (died 1965)
- 14 August - Gisela Richter, art historian (died 1972)
- 19 September - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (died 1965)
- 14 October - Charlie Parker, cricketer (died 1959)
- 24 October - Sybil Thorndike, actress (died 1976)
- 25 October - Florence Easton, opera soprano (died 1955)
[edit] Deaths
- 9 April - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter (born 1828)
- 19 April - Charles Darwin, naturalist (born 1809)
- 3 December - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1811)
- 6 December - Anthony Trollope, novelist (born 1815)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 306-307. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b British Occupation of Egypt 1882 timeline
- ^ "Royal Courts of Justice visitors guide". http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/rcj/history.htm. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
