Editing 1882 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 11]]–[[July 13|13]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Egyptian War]]: The British [[Mediterranean Fleet]] carries out the [[Bombardment of Alexandria]], its forces capturing the city of [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], and securing the [[Suez Canal]].
* [[July 23]] &ndash; The [[Imo Incident]] occurs in [[Seoul]], Korea, as a result of bad rations and late payment for soldiers of the [[Joseon Army]].
* [[July 26]]
** [[Boer]]s establish the republic of [[Stellaland]] in southern Africa.
** [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Parsifal]]'' debuts, at the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]] in [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]].
* [[July 31]] &ndash; The Hebrew [[Moshava]] of [[Rishon LeZion]] in Palestine is founded.
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Congress]] passes the [[1882 Immigration Act]].
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Standard Oil of New Jersey]], the company later known as [[ExxonMobil]], is established.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; The [[Married Women's Property Act 1882]] receives royal assent in Britain; it enables women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[1812 Overture]]'' debuts in Moscow.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[Australian cricket team]] historically defeats [[England cricket team|England]] at [[The Oval]] for the first time on English soil, a humiliation for the English and the origin for the [[The Ashes|Ashes]] test series.
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the United States, lighting one square mile of [[lower Manhattan]]. This is considered by many as the day that begins the electrical age.
* [[September 5]] 
**The first United States [[Labor Day]] parade is held in New York City.
**[[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.]] is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London.
* [[September 13]]
**[[Anglo-Egyptian War]]: British troops occupy [[Cairo]], and [[Egypt]] becomes a British [[protectorate]].
**[[Selwyn College, Cambridge]], is founded after [[Queen Victoria]] grants a Charter of Incorporation. 
[[File:Great Comet of 1882.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Photograph of the comet as seen from [[Cape Town]] by David Gill]]
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Great Comet of 1882]]: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight."