Events from the year 1882 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)

Events

• 25 January London Chamber of Commerce founded.^[1]
• 2 March Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.^[2]
• 24 March Jumbo the elephant departs from Britain having been sold by London Zoo to the American showman P. T. Barnum for $10,000.
• 25 March Old Etonians F.C. beat Blackburn Rovers 1 0 in the FA Cup Final at The Oval, the last time an amateur team will win.^[3]
• 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.^[2]
• 18 May The fourth Eddystone Lighthouse is illuminated for the first time; its designer, James Douglass is knighted the following month.^[4]
• 11 July Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.^[5]
• 13 September Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo and Egypt becomes British protectorate.^[5]
• 28 October Six Benedictine monks return to commence the rebuilding of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
• 25 November The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Iolanthe is first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London.^[2]
• 4 December Queen Victoria opens the Royal Courts of Justice in London.^[6]

Undated

• Married Women's Property Act enables wives to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
• Battle of the Braes on the Scottish island of Skye: Protests by crofting tenants facing eviction. Police from Glasgow and the military are sent to restore order.^[7][8]
• The county town of Lancashire is transferred from Lancaster to Preston, where a new County Hall is opened.
• 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.
• Regent Street Polytechnic, Britain's first polytechnic, opens in London.^[1]
• Henry Sidgwick founds the Society for Psychical Research.^[1]
• Walter Langley moves to Newlyn, Cornwall, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn School.^[9]

Publications

• F. Anstey's novel Vice Versa.
• Richard Jefferies' children's story Bevis.

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)
• 28 December Arthur Stanley Eddington, astrophysicist (died 1944)

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)

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