1882
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Events
- Iolani Palace, America's only royal residence, is built on Oahu.
- Bolshevik expropriations expert S.A. Ter-Petrosian or Kamo is born. Feinged insanity in Germany to prevent extradition to Imperial Russia.
- Abraham R. Gotz, future Social-Revolutionary terrorist and Kerensky supporter, is born.
- Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812.
- Switzerland opens the St. Gothard railroad line.
- Phoenix Park murders in London.
Timeline
January
- January 6: Future Democratic Dpeaker of U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn is born.
- January 30: Future Democratic U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President) is born.
March
- March 28: Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical or laique and obligatory.
April
- April 3: Jesse James is shot and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
May
- May 2: Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
- May 6: The "Invincibles", an Irish Republicans group assassiante Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- May 6: The racist Chinese Exclusion Act is passed and all Chinese immigration into the U.S, is stopped.
- May 19: Future Iranian nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh is born. Will be overhtrown in CIA coup masterminded by Kermit Roosevelt.
- May 20: Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is signed. Italy agrees to remain neutral in a war between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
June
- June 30: Presidential assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.
July
- July 11: Britain ocupies Alexandria and Suez Canal.
- July 16: Mary Todd Lincoln dies.
September
- September 13: Britain occupies Cairo and Egypt is made a British protectorate.
October
- October 22: Accidential explosion of harpoon gun on a Northwest Trading Company ship kills a Angoon Village Tlingit shaman. The Tlingit crew then forces the ship to stop work for the customary 4 day mournign period.
- October 26: Naval commander E.C. Merriman orders bombardment and burning of the village of Angoon in reprisal for the refusal to work. His sailors and marines then loot the ruins in another demonstration of the moral superiorityt of Western civilization.
