WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1882
Find out what all happened February to October 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. (10. July 1882)

Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth. (26. July 1882)

Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin. (6. May 1882)

The Knights of Columbus are established. (29. March 1882)

The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. (28. June 1882)

The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War. (11. July 1882)

Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. (30. June 1882)

The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. (18. September 1882)

University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan. (14. October 1882)

The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. (13. September 1882)

Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. (30. September 1882)

Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor. (2. March 1882)

The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin. (29. April 1882)

American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. (3. April 1882)

The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa. (26. July 1882)

The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. (6. May 1882)

The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. (16. October 1882)

The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. (5. September 1882)

More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour. (6. June 1882)

The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. (5. August 1882)