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| 1882 |
| | Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution | |
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| c. 1882 |
| | German bacteriologist Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacillus that causes tuberculosis | |
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| 1882 |
| | Jesse James allows into his home a new gang member, working secretly for the police, who shoots him in the back | |
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| 1882 |
| | Congress passes a Chinese Exclusion Act, in the USA's first retreat from the policy of welcoming all immigrants | |
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| 1882 |
| | Stanley establishes a foothold for Leopold II on the southern bank of the Congo, at a site which he names Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) | |
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| 1882 |
| | Irish chief secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and a colleague are assassinated in Phoenix Park in Dublin | |
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| 1882 |
| | The first settlements of European Jews, returning to the promised land, are established in Palestine | |
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| 1882 |
| | Italy, previously non-aligned, signs a Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1882 |
| | Anti-western riots in Alexandria result in many deaths and provoke a British invasion | |
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| 1882 |
| | Ulises Heureaux becomes dictator of the Dominican Republic and retains power until assassinated in 1899 | |
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