Volume 11 , Issue 38

1882 - Politcal Events

1882 - Politcal Events -- Ireland's Charles Stewart Parnell and his associates were released from Kilmainham Prison May 2, 1882 after agreeing to stop boycotting landowners, to cooperate with the Liberal Party, and to stop inciting Irishmen to intimidate tenant farmers from cooperating with landlords.

Four days after Parnell's release the new chief secretary for Ireland and his permanent under-secretary were murdered by Fenians in broad daylight in Dublin's Phoenix Park and while the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke was repudiated by Parnell, it lead the British to suspend trial by jury and to give the police unbridled power to search and arrest on suspicion. Public buildings in England were dynamited in a campaign of terrorism that was also disavowed by Parnell.

Canada's District of Saskatchewan was created and the town of Regina was founded on the route of the Canadian pacific Railway being constructed by Cornelius Van Horne. Regina would be headquarters for the 9 year old Northwest Mounted Police.

A Triple Alliance was signed May 20, 1882 by Germany, Austria, and Italy. Each promised to come to the other's aid should the ally be attacked by France within the next 5 years (1882-1887).

Alexandria was bombarded July 11, 1882 by the British fleet under Sir Beauchamp Seymour. British troops were landed to protect the Suez Canal from nationalist forces, the Egyptians were defeated September 13, 1882 by Sir Garnet Wolseley at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir. Cairo was occupied by the British September 15, 1882, and dual control of Egypt by France and Britain was abolished November 9, 1882.

Ethiopia's northern town of Assab was taken over by Italian forces who would make it the basis of Italy's Eritrean colony in 1890. Ethiopia's Johannes IV made a pact with his vanquished rival Menelek of Shoa and designated Menelek as his successor.

The International Association of the Congo was created out of the 1878 Belgian Comite d'Etudes du Haut-Congo and several companies were organized to exploit the region.

France claimed a protectorate over the entire norhtwestern portion of Madagascar. An insurrection against the French in Indo-China was launched in Tonkin.

A 3-mile limit for territorial waters was agreed upon in a Hague Convention signed by the world powers.
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