Events
- 1 January - The time zone in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore has changed to UTC+8/GMT+8 and it has not changed since.
- 2 January - The metric system of weights and measurements were introduced to replace the British imperial systems.
- 10 January- The former Defence Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, survives a plane crash.
- February - The construction of the Penang Bridge projects had begun.
- 13 February - The first section of North-South Expressway, Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Expressway was opened to traffic.
- March - The second version of Malaysian Ringgit RM 1 notes is introduced.
- April - The 1982 Malaysian General Elections. The State Assemblyman for Tampin, Negri Sembilan, Datuk Mohd Taha Talib was found murdered. The then Culture, Youth and Sports Minister, Datuk Mokhtar Hashim was arrested and later convicted in connection with the murder.
- 29 April - McDonald's Malaysia opened its first restaurant at Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.
- 31 August - Malaysia celebrates its Silver Jubilee (25 years) of independence
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“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
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