May 23 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa

May 15 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

May 06 Chinese Exclusion Act US Congress ceases Chinese immigration

May 13 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition

May 06 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration

May 06 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria

May 09 Telegraph Hill RR Company organized

May 19 Commodore Shufeldt (USS Swatara) lands in Korea to negotiate first treaty between Korea and Western power

May 20 St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens

Jan 26 France government of Gambetta falls

Jan 17 The first Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

Jan 25 The birth of Virginia Woolf, English novelist

Jan 31 The birth of Anna Pavlova, Celebrated Russian prima ballerina

Jan 25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"

Jan 17 The first Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

Jan 01 William Cornelius Van Horne is appointed General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Van Horne succeeded in laying 480 miles of track across the Prairies in the summer of 1882.

Jan 02 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

Jan 02 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

Jan 15 The First US ski club forms (Berlin NH)

Jan 30 The birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former (32nd) American President

Jan 01 William Cornelius Van Horne is appointed General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Van Horne succeeded in laying 480 miles of track across the Prairies in the summer of 1882.

Feb 03 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo

Feb 21 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours

Feb 15 First cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin

Feb 02 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven CT

Feb 15 The birth of John Barrymore, American actor.

Feb 12 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam

Feb 07 The last unprotected (i.e., without padded gloves) heavyweight boxing championship fight occurs in Mississippi City.

Feb 02 The birth of James Joyce, Irish writer

Apr 03 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks

Apr 18 The birth of Leopold Stokowski, British composer

Apr 10 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco &Hawaii)

Apr 19 J Palisa discovers asteroid #225 Henrietta

Sep 13 Britain invades Egypt

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