Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London. September 13 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, and Egypt becomes a British protectorate. Selwyn College, Cambridge, is founded after Queen Victoria grants a Charter of Incorporation. September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight." October–December October 5 – The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded by Felix Adler. October 14 – The University of the Punjab at Lahore (Undivided India), is founded in modern-day Pakistan. October 16 – The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt, for US$7.2 million. October 21 – Waseda University is founded by Shigenobu Ōkuma in Japan as Tokyo Specializing School. November 2 – The Great Fire of Oulu destroys 27 buildings in the downtown of Oulu, Finland. November 14 – Franklyn Leslie shoots Billy Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. November 16 – The British Royal Navy's destroys Abari village in Niger. December – Zikhron Ya'akov is founded in northern Israel. December 6 – A transit of Venus, the last until 2004, occurs. Date unknown The first International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins. Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande returns to South Africa from England. A peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay. Pogroms in Southern Russia end. Nikola Tesla claims this is when he conceives the rotating magnetic field principle, which he later uses to invent his induction motor. The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded. Redruth Mining School opens in Cornwall. The Personal Liberty League is established to oppose the temperance movement in the United States. Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the United States. Founding of the following sports clubs: Albion Rovers F.C. (through the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers) in the urban west of Scotland;