Timeline January 1882

Events in January 1882 3

• 1882 Standard Oil Trust established Rockefeller consolidates the US oil industry under a single trust On 2 January 1882, John D. Rockefeller and his partners formed the Standard Oil Trust, combining dozens of separate companies under a single board of trustees. The structure let Standard Oil dominate American oil refining while skirting state laws against owning out-of-state companies. It became the model that later antitrust law was written to prevent.
• 1882 – 1941 Virginia Woolf English modernist writer Woolf pioneered stream-of-consciousness writing and explored identity and time in modernist literature.
• 1882 – 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President — New Deal, WWII, four terms Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jan 30, 1882 – Apr 12, 1945) was the 32nd President 1933-1945, the only president elected four times. He led the US through the Great Depression (New Deal) and World War II, dying in office months before VE Day.