A great year for sausage.

Southside Market & Barbeque started selling sausage in Elgin, Texas in 1882. And while this is pretty much the most amazing thing that happed in that year, a lot of other things took place that were almost as interesting.

January–March

• January 6 – Sam Rayburn, Texan and Speaker of the House of Representatives is born.
• January 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President is born.
• February 3 – P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo.
• February 15 – John Barrymore, American actor is born.
• March 2 – Roderick Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• March 22 – Polygamy is made a felony by the Edmunds Act as passed by Congress.
• March 24 – The baterium responsible for tuberculosis is discovered.
• March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American auther dies.
• March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are established.

April–June

• April 3 – Outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford.
• April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist dies.
• April 27 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anerican philosopher and writer dies.
• May 8 – The Chinese Exclusion Act restricts immigration into the U.S.A.
• June17 – Igore Stravinsky, Russian composer is born.
• June 30 – U.S. presidential assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.
• July 11 – British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
• July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States dies.
• June 22 – Edward Hopper, American painter is born.

July–September

• July 11 – British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
• August 3 – The U.S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.
• August 5 – Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
• August 17 – Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul is born.
• August 20 – Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
• September 5 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• September 13 – 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: Egypt becomes a British protectorate

October–December

• October 16 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
• November 14 – Franklin Leslie shoots Billy Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona.
• November 16 – The Royal Navy's HMS destroys Abari village in Niger.