Timeline May 1882

Events in May 1882 6

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law United States bars Chinese labor immigration President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act on 6 May 1882, suspending immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States for ten years. It was the first major US law to restrict immigration based on nationality. The act remained in force, with renewals, until its repeal in 1943.
• 1882 Phoenix Park Murders Irish nationalists assassinate two senior British officials in Dublin Members of the Irish National Invincibles stabbed to death Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The killings shocked Britain and derailed attempts at conciliation between the government and Irish nationalists. Several conspirators were later tried and hanged.
• 1882 – 1963 Georges Braque Cubism · France Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963) was a French painter who co-founded Cubism with Picasso. His fragmented, multi-perspective compositions transformed Western painting and influenced every major art movement that followed.
• 1882 The Triple Alliance Vienna, Austria-Hungary Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy signed a defensive pact. Italy would spend 1914 arguing it did not apply, and joined the other side in 1915.
• 1882 Triple Alliance formed Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy sign a defensive pact Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy signed the Triple Alliance in Vienna on 20 May 1882, committing each to mutual support if attacked by another great power. The pact was engineered chiefly by Otto von Bismarck to isolate France. It shaped European alliance politics until the outbreak of the First World War.
• 1882 – present St. Gotthard Massif Heart of the Alps A vital transit axis; home to the world's longest railway tunnel (Gotthard Base Tunnel).