1881 - 1882 - 1883
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Died in 1882:
Events of 1882:
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed by the US congress.
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Women's Suffrage: The Married Women's Property Act is passed by the British parliament.
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The Edmunds Act is adopted by the US Congress to suppress polygamy in the territories, especially in Mormon Utah.
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United States marks the first Labor Day which later becomes a national holiday.
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After years of an increasing tension, British bombard Alexandria and capture Cairo. The British Occupation of Egypt lasts until 1952.
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Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary form the Triple Alliance.
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Fenians murder British Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish.
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Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust is the first industrial monopoly.
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Hiram Maxim patents recoil operated machine gun.
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Nikola Tesla develops theory of alternating current.
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Henry W. Seely invents the electric flat iron.
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Invention of the electric fan by Schuyler S. Wheeler.
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German physician and researcher Robert Koch isolates the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
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Etienne-Jules Marcy, a French physiologist, takes
the first motion picture.
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German composer Richard Wagner completes his final work, Parsifal, and dies in the next year.
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Joseph Breuer begins hypnosis treatments and psychoanalysis.
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Ignatus Donnelly publishes Atlantis, claiming the city actually existed.
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The Great Comet appears. It was bright enough to be seen in daytime.
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A transit of the planet Venus across the Sun's disk occured. The next transit would be in 2004.
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The Kiev Pogrom.
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The city of Rishon Le-Zion, home of the Carmel Mizrachi Winery, is founded.
1881 - 1882 - 1883
How They Were Made - 19th Century