1882 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1882 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - William Gladstone, Liberal

Events

* 25 January - London Chamber of Commerce founded.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 306-307|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 2 March - Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 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.
* 11 July - 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal. [http://onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1800s/yr80/fegypt1882b.htm British Occupation of Egypt 1882 timeline] ]
* 13 September - Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, Egypt becomes British protectorate.
* 25 November - The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera "Iolanthe" is first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London.
* 4 December - Queen Victoria opens the Royal Courts of Justice in London. [cite web|url=http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/rcj/history.htm|title=Royal Courts of Justice visitors guide|accessdate=2007-12-16]

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.
* Henry Sidgwick founds the Society for Psychical Research.

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)

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)

References

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