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  • New York, U.S.
    1882
    Theodore Roosevelt

    The New York State Assembly

    New York, U.S.
    1882

    Roosevelt was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 21st D.) in 1882, 1883 and 1884.




  • France
    1882
    Statue of Liberty

    Statue was complete up to the Waist

    France
    1882

    By 1882, the statue was complete up to the waist, an event Barthodi celebrated by inviting reporters to lunch on a platform built within the statue.




  • U.S.
    1882
    Statue of Liberty

    Fundraising in the U.S.

    U.S.
    1882

    Fundraising in the US for the pedestal had begun in 1882. The committee organized a large number of money-raising events. As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in eastern Europe. These refugees were forced to live in conditions that the wealthy Lazarus had never experienced. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. The resulting sonnet, "The New Colossus", including the iconic lines: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty and is inscribed on a plaque in its museum.




  • New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 17, 1882
    Incandescent light bulb

    Latimer received a patent for The "Process of Manufacturing Carbons"

    New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 17, 1882

    Lewis Latimer, employed at the time by Edison, developed an improved method of heat-treating carbon filaments which reduced breakage and allowed them to be molded into novel shapes, such as the characteristic "M" shape of Maxim filaments. On 17 January 1882, Latimer received a patent for the "Process of Manufacturing Carbons", an improved method for the production of light bulb filaments, which was purchased by the United States Electric Light Company. Latimer patented other improvements such as a better way of attaching filaments to their wire supports.




  • Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
    Monday Jan 30, 1882
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Birth

    Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
    Monday Jan 30, 1882

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt Sr. and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano.




  • Russia
    Sunday Apr 2, 1882
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Second Marriage

    Russia
    Sunday Apr 2, 1882

    Mendeleev's divorce from Leshcheva was finalized one month after he had married Popova on 2 April 1882. Even after the divorce, Mendeleev was technically a bigamist, the state of entering a marriage with one person while still legally married to another, where the Russian Orthodox Church required at least seven years before lawful remarriage.




  • England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882
    Incandescent light bulb

    Swan sold his US Patent rights to the Brush Electric Company

    England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882

    In Britain, the Edison and Swan companies merged into the Edison and Swan United Electric Company (later known as Ediswan, and ultimately incorporated into Thorn Lighting Ltd). Edison was initially against this combination, but after Swan sued him and won, Edison was eventually forced to cooperate, and the merger was made. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company. Swan sold his US patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June 1882.


  • Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
    1882
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson followed his brother to Huntington

    Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
    1882

    At the age of seventeen, Woodson followed his brother to Huntington, where he hoped to attend the brand new secondary school for blacks, Douglass High School. However, Woodson, forced to work as a coal miner, was able to devote only minimal time each year to his schooling.


  • Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882
    Igor Stravinsky

    Born

    Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882

    Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in Oranienbaum, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, the Russian imperial capital, and was brought up in Saint Petersburg.


  • London, United Kingdom
    1882
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Davy Medal

    London, United Kingdom
    1882

    In 1882, Mendeleev was awarded the Davy medal by the royal society of London along with Julius Lothar Meyer, for their discovery of the periodic relations of the atomic weights.


  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Saturday Jul 22, 1882
    Labor day

    Peter J. McGuire was asked to speak at a labor festival

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Saturday Jul 22, 1882

    The Toronto Trades and Labor Council (successor to the TTA) held similar celebrations every spring. American Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was asked to speak at a labor festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 22 July 1882.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 4, 1882
    Frederick Douglass

    Anna died

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 4, 1882

    Anna his wife, died in 1882.


  • Paris, France
    1882
    Nikola Tesla

    Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris

    Paris, France
    1882

    In 1882, Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company. Tesla began working in what was then a brand new industry, installing indoor incandescent lighting citywide in the form of an electric power utility. The company had several subdivisions and Tesla worked at the Société Electrique Edison, the division in the Ivry-sur-Seine suburb of Paris in charge of installing the lighting system. There he gained a great deal of practical experience in electrical engineering. Management took notice of his advanced knowledge in engineering and physics and soon had him designing and building improved versions of generating dynamos and motors.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1882
    Lothar Meyer

    Meyer and Mendeleev received the Davy Medal

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1882

    In 1882, both Meyer and Mendeleev received the Davy Medal from the Royal Society in recognition of their work on the Periodic Law.


  • New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Sep 5, 1882
    Labor day

    McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event

    New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Sep 5, 1882

    McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on 5 September 1882 in New York City, US.


  • Egypt
    1882
    Ottoman Empire

    Coward Damned

    Egypt
    1882

    Britain later sent troops to Egypt in 1882 to put down the Urabi Revolt – Sultan Abdul Hamid II was too paranoid to mobilize his own army, fearing this would result in a coup d'état – effectively gaining control in both territories. Abdul Hamid II, popularly known as "Abdul Hamid the Damned" on account of his cruelty and paranoia, was so fearful of the threat of a coup that he did not allow his army to conduct war games, lest this serves as the cover for a coup, but he did see the need for military mobilization.


  • Egypt
    1882
    The Great Pyramid

    Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie

    Egypt
    1882

    The first precise measurements of the pyramid were made by Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie in 1880–82 and published as The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Many of the casing stones and inner chamber blocks of the Great Pyramid fit together with extremely high precision. Based on measurements taken on the north-eastern casing stones, the mean opening of the joints is only 0.5 millimeters (0.020 in) wide.


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