1882
Late Victorian era
1882 is a year in the late nineteenth century.
Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a point in time: The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882.
Years also work as modifiers: an 1882 vintage, the 1882 edition.
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- corsetBoned waist-shaping undergarment
top hat · etiquette · gentility · moralism · carriage · Gothic Revival · parlour · workhouse
Twelve-month duration
- dateSpecific day or outing
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- 1880sNinth decade, nineteenth century
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
Gilded Age · fin de siècle · epoch · historical · timeline · annals · period · era
Prolific American inventor
- Standard OilHistoric petroleum monopoly
- robber baronsExploitative nineteenth-century capitalists
- railroad expansionGrowth of train infrastructure
- immigration waveLarge influx of newcomers
Tammany Hall · tenements · labor unrest · transcontinental railroad · telegraph · political machines · muckraking · monopolies
Art movement emphasizing light
- RenoirFrench Impressionist master
- Henry James"The Ambassadors" author
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- realismAccepting things as they are
Manet · Robert Louis Stevenson · Mark Twain · naturalism · Pre-Raphaelites · operetta · Gilbert and Sullivan
Law prohibiting Asian workers
- Mahdist War1880s Sudanese religious rebellion
- Berlin ConferenceMeeting that divided Africa
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
corset · top hat · etiquette · gentility · moralism · carriage · Gothic Revival · parlour · workhouse · suffragette movement
year
Twelve-month duration
- dateSpecific day or outing
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- 1880sNinth decade, nineteenth century
Victorian era · Gilded Age · fin de siècle · epoch · historical · timeline · annals · period · era · age
Thomas Edison
Prolific American inventor
- Standard OilHistoric petroleum monopoly
- robber baronsExploitative nineteenth-century capitalists
- railroad expansionGrowth of train infrastructure
immigration wave · Tammany Hall · tenements · labor unrest · transcontinental railroad · telegraph · political machines · muckraking · monopolies · westward expansion
Impressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
- RenoirFrench Impressionist master
- Henry James"The Ambassadors" author
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
Manet · Robert Louis Stevenson · Mark Twain · realism · naturalism · Pre-Raphaelites · operetta · Gilbert and Sullivan
Chinese Exclusion Act
Law prohibiting Asian workers
- Mahdist War1880s Sudanese religious rebellion
- Berlin ConferenceMeeting that divided Africa