During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the Museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes.

The immense debt resulting from Isma ' il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion in 1882.

The White Stockings, with Anson acting as player / manager, captured their third consecutive pennant in 1882, and Anson established himself as the game's first true superstar.

In 1882 the Imperial Russian Army converted all its line hussar and lancer regiments to dragoons, with an emphasis on mounted infantry training.

He read law and entered Columbia Law School in 1882, and he graduated in 1884 with highest honors.

in novels such as Vice Versa ( 1882 ), where magic disrupts Victorian society with

Fire protection was expanded in 1882, with the city's first 13 paid firefighters.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

In 1882, it was proven that this figure cannot be constructed in a finite number of steps with an idealized compass and straightedge.

Starting with Moritz Pasch in 1882, many improved axiomatic systems for geometry have been proposed, the best known being those of Hilbert, George Birkhoff, and Tarski.

Anna Murray-Douglass died in 1882, leaving him with a sense of great loss and depression for a time.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1, 300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

by J. F. Condon, continued to 1861, New Orleans, 1882 ) is the first scholarly treatment of the subject, along with François Barbé-Marbois ' Histoire de la Louisiane et de la cession de colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis ( Paris, 1829 ; in English, Philadelphia, 1830 ).

Image: Old Man with his Head in his Hands ( At Eternity's Gate ). jpg | At Eternity's Gate, 1882 lithograph by Vincent van Gogh.

The history of the rugby ground begins with the first stands appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881 – 1882.

In 1882, the club amalgamated with the Hotham Cricket Club and moved into the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve ( Arden St Oval ) which has remained as the home of the club up until this day.

He also negotiated the Triple Alliance in 1882 with Austria-Hungary and Italy ; this was a completely different Alliance to the Dual Alliance.

Although designers Olmsted and Vaux enjoy twenty-first century fame, Stranahan was regarded by his 19th century peers as the true " Father of Prospect Park ", a reputation established through his 22 year reign as Park Commission president ( 1860 – 1882 ), engagement of Olmsted and Vaux, overseeing complex, politically charged land acquisitions, securing funding to build the park, and, after its completion, defending its design against unwanted changes, leaving Brooklyn perhaps its greatest legacy.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

Alcott's published books, all from late in his life, include Tablets ( 1868 ), Concord Days ( 1872 ), New Connecticut ( 1881 ), and Sonnets and Canzonets ( 1882 ).

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

Horse drawn buses were used from the 1820s, followed by steam buses in the 1830s, and electric trolleybuses in 1882.

Between 1882 and 1937, the population of Cairo more than tripled – from 347, 000 to 1. 3 million – and its area increased from to.

In the spring of 1882, Hermann Minkowski ( two years younger than Hilbert and also a native of Königsberg but so talented he had graduated early from his gymnasium and gone to Berlin for three semesters ), returned to Königsberg and entered the university.

However, from about 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state.

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882.

An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).

In 1882, Gilbert had a telephone installed in his home and at the prompt desk at the Savoy Theatre so that he could monitor performances and rehearsals from his home study.

The word " holomorphic " was introduced by two of Cauchy's students, Briot ( 1817 – 1882 ) and Bouquet ( 1819 – 1895 ), and derives from the Greek ὅλος ( holos ) meaning " entire ", and μορφή ( morphē ) meaning " form " or " appearance ".

The five Landis boys in November 1882 ; Kenesaw ( second from left ) was almost sixteen years old.

In 1882, the Knights ended their membership rituals and removed the words " Noble Order " from their name.

A later version of the Athletics played in the American Association from 1882 – 1891.

Government records indicated that approximately 12, 000 immigrants entered the port of Asunción between 1882 and 1907, of that total, almost 9, 000 came from Italy, Germany, France, and Spain.