1881 - 1882 - 1883

Born in 1882:

• Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
• French painter Edmund Dulac
• Swedish painter John Bauer
• Nikolai Platonovich Andreev, master of pictorial photography
• Austrian musician Joseph Marx, master of romantic impressionism
• German mathematician Emmy Amalie Noether (daughter of Max Noether).
• American novelist Henry Bellamann
• Robert H. Goddard, pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight theory.
• German philosopher Leonard Nelson
• American President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Irish novelist James Joyce
• British novelist, critic, and essayist, Virginia Woolf
• German theoretical physicist, Max Born
• Jordan King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein

Died in 1882:

• Naturalist Charles Robert Darwin, the discoverer of natural selection
• American philosopher and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• English sporting artist, Harry Hall
• Italian revolutionist Giuseppe Garibaldi
• English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
• English novelist Anthony Trollope

Events of 1882:

• The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed by the US congress.
• Women's Suffrage: The Married Women's Property Act is passed by the British parliament.
• The Edmunds Act is adopted by the US Congress to suppress polygamy in the territories, especially in Mormon Utah.
• United States marks the first Labor Day which later becomes a national holiday.
• After years of an increasing tension, British bombard Alexandria and capture Cairo. The British Occupation of Egypt lasts until 1952.
• Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary form the Triple Alliance.
• Fenians murder British Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish.
• Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust is the first industrial monopoly.
• Hiram Maxim patents recoil operated machine gun.
• Nikola Tesla develops theory of alternating current.
• Henry W. Seely invents the electric flat iron.
• Invention of the electric fan by Schuyler S. Wheeler.
• German physician and researcher Robert Koch isolates the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• Etienne-Jules Marcy, a French physiologist, takes the first motion picture.
• German composer Richard Wagner completes his final work, Parsifal, and dies in the next year.
• Joseph Breuer begins hypnosis treatments and psychoanalysis.
• Ignatus Donnelly publishes Atlantis, claiming the city actually existed.
• The Great Comet appears. It was bright enough to be seen in daytime.
• A transit of the planet Venus across the Sun's disk occured. The next transit would be in 2004.
• The Kiev Pogrom.
• The city of Rishon Le-Zion, home of the Carmel Mizrachi Winery, is founded.

1881 - 1882 - 1883

How They Were Made - 19th Century