1882 – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי

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1882

Events

January–March

January 2
- The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
- Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour; when asked by a customs official if he has anything to declare, he replies "I have nothing to declare but my genius" according to later tradition.
January 5 – Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of the assassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States), despite an insanity defense raised by his lawyer. He will be hanged on June 30.
February 3 – American showman P. T. Barnum acquires the elephant Jumbo from London Zoo.
March 2 – Roderick McLean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.
March 20 – British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone of which he is Governor.
March 22 – Polygamy is made a felony by the Edmunds Act passed by the United States Congress.
March 24 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
March 28
- Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
- German medical products company Beiersdorf is founded.
March 29 – The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal service organization, is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.

1882 – מילון אנגלי-עברי