Editing 1882 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]]
** The [[Standard Oil]] [[Trust (business)|Trust]] is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by [[John D. Rockefeller]] and his associates.<ref>{{cite book|first1=David O.|last1=Whitten|first2=Bessie Emrick|last2=Whitten|title=Handbook of American Business History: Manufacturing|url=https://archive.org/details/extractivesmanuf00whit|url-access=limited|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1990|page=[https://archive.org/details/extractivesmanuf00whit/page/n196 182]}}</ref> 
** Irish-born author [[Oscar Wilde]] arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite book|first=Norman|last=Page|title=An Oscar Wilde Chronology|publisher=Macmillan|year=1991|page=17}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Charles J. Guiteau]] is found guilty of the [[assassination of James A. Garfield]] (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite an [[insanity defense]] raised by his lawyer.<ref>{{cite book|first=John W.|last=Johnson|title=Historic U.S. Court Cases|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=U.S.|year=2001|page=54}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Holborn Viaduct power station]] in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVKt7UzjnEC&pg=PA89|journal=[[New Scientist]]|location=London|title=The electricity of Holborn|first=Jack|last=Harris|date=1982-01-14|access-date=April 14, 2017|archive-date=February 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204142006/https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVKt7UzjnEC&pg=PA89|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; American showman [[P. T. Barnum]] acquires the elephant [[Jumbo]] from the [[London Zoo]].
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Roderick Maclean]] fails in an attempt to assassinate [[Queen Victoria]], at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]].
* [[March 18]] (March 6 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; The [[Principality of Serbia]] becomes the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] following a proclamation.
* [[March 20]] &ndash; British gunboats enter [[Monrovia]], with [[Arthur Havelock]] demanding that [[Liberia]] cede disputed territory to the British colony of [[Sierra Leone]], of which he is Governor.
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Polygamy]] is made a felony by the [[Edmunds Act]], passed by the [[United States Congress]].
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Robert Koch]] announces the discovery of the [[bacterium]] responsible for [[tuberculosis]] (''[[Mycobacterium tuberculosis]]'').
* [[March 28]]
** Republican [[Jules Ferry]] makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (''laique'') and obligatory.
** German medical products company ''[[Beiersdorf]]'' is founded.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[Knights of Columbus]], a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[fraternal service organization]], is founded in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].