Editing 1882 (section)

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* The first [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific program, begins.
* [[Zulu people|Zulu]] king [[Cetshwayo kaMpande]] returns to South Africa from England.
* A peace treaty is signed between [[Paraguay]] and [[Uruguay]].
* [[Pogrom]]s in [[Southern Federal District|Southern Russia]] end.
* [[Nikola Tesla]] claims this is when he conceives the [[rotating magnetic field]] principle, which he later uses to invent his [[induction motor]].
* The British [[Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys|Chartered Institute of Patent Agents]] (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded.
* [[Redruth]] Mining School opens in [[Cornwall]].
* The [[Personal Liberty League]] is established to oppose the [[temperance movement in the United States]].
* [[Carolyn Merrick]] is elected president of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] in the United States.
* Founding of the following sports clubs:
** [[Albion Rovers F.C.]] (through the amalgamation of two [[Coatbridge]] clubs, Albion and Rovers) in the urban west of Scotland;
** Christchurch Rangers, the earliest predecessor of [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.]], in London;
** [[Glentoran F.C.]] in [[Belfast]] in the north of Ireland;
** [[Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club]], the oldest lawn tennis club still on its original site, in the outer London suburbs;
** [[Waterloo F.C.]], a [[rugby union]] club, as Serpentine on [[Merseyside]] in the north of England.