1872 34768 222511355 2008-06-29T18:58:25Z Zorrobot 7218328 robot Modifying: [[lt:1872 m.]] {{year nav|1872}} {{C19YearInTopicX}} Year '''1872''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). It was a year in the 19th Century. <!-- 12-day span=Mon-Sat,Tue-Sun,Wed-Mon,Thu-Tue,Fr-We,Sa-Th,Sun-Fri --> ==Events of 1872== ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 2]] - [[Brigham Young]] is arrested for [[polygamy]] (28 wives). * [[January 12]] - [[Yohannes IV of Ethiopia|Yohannes IV]] is crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] in [[Axum]], the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * [[February 13]] - [[Rex]], the most famous parade on [[Mardi Gras]] day, parades in [[New Orleans]] for [[Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia]] * [[February 20]] - In [[New York City]] the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] closes for "urban renovation". * [[March 1]] - In the [[United States]], [[Yellowstone National Park]] is established as the world's first [[national park]]. * [[March 5]] **[[George Westinghouse]] patents the "failsafe" automatic [[air brake (rail)|railway air brake]]. **The case of [[Tichborne Claimant]] decided against the claimant Arthur Orton. * [[March 11]] - Work began erecting [[Seven Sisters, Wales|Seven Sisters]] Colliery, [[South Wales]]; Located on one of the richest coal sources in [[Great Britain|Britain]]. * [[March 26]] - [[Earthquake]] at [[Lone Pine, California]] with an estimated magnitude of 7.2. * [[May 10]] - [[Victoria Woodhull]] becomes the first woman nominated for [[President of the United States]], although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot. * [[May 22]] - [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]]: U.S. President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] signs the [[Amnesty Act of 1872]] into law restoring full [[civil rights]] to all but about 500 [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] sympathizers. * [[June 14]] - [[Trade union]]s legalised in [[Canada]]. <ref>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A218 Reference from the Canada Encyclopedia]</ref> ===July - December=== * [[July 4]] - [[Society of Jesus]] is pronounced illegal in the [[German Empire]]. * [[August 22]] - The [[Overland Telegraph]] is completed in Australia, providing a telegraphic link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time. * August,23, Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Panthulu born at Kanuparthy Village near Ongole,Prakasaam Dist,in Andhra Pradesh. [[September 1]] - Group of Icaiche [[Maya peoples|Maya]] under Marcos Canul attack [[Orange Walk Town]] in [[British Honduras]]. British send troops against them. *[[September 26]] - The first [[Shriners]] Temple (called Mecca) was established in [[New York City]]. * [[October 1]] - The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College began its first academic session. The university was later renamed [[Virginia Tech]] * [[November 5]] **[[Ulysses S. Grant]] defeats [[Horace Greeley]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1872|U.S. presidential election]]. **[[Women's suffrage]]: In defiance of the law, American suffragist [[Susan B. Anthony]] votes for the first time (on [[November 18]] she was served an arrest warrant and in the subsequent trial she was fined $100 - she never paid the fine). * [[November 7]] - ''[[Mary Celeste]]'' sets sail from New York, bound for Genoa. * [[November 9]] - [[Great Boston Fire of 1872]]: In [[Boston, Massachusetts]], a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres (0.3 km²) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage). * [[November 27]] - [[Meteor shower]] display over France. * [[November 29]] **[[Indian Wars]]: The [[Modoc War]] begins with the Battle of Lost River. **[[November 29]] - [[Horace Greeley]], President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s opponent in the [[United States presidential election, 1872|1872 U.S. presidential election]], dies. His electoral votes are divided among several candidates. *[[November 30]] - First ever international [[Football (soccer)|football]] match takes place at [[Hamilton Crescent]], [[Scotland]]; the result is Scotland 0, England 0.<ref>[http://www.londonhearts.com/scotland/games/18721130.html Londonhearts.com summary]</ref> * [[December 4]] - The crewless [[United States|American]] ship ''[[Mary Celeste]]'' is found by the [[United Kingdom|British]] brig ''Dei Gratia''. * [[December 21]] - ''[[Challenger expedition|HMS Challenger]]'' sails from [[Portsmouth]] on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of [[oceanography]]. ===Undated=== * [[Louis Ducos du Hauron]] creates the first [[Color photography|color photograph]]. [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html] * [[London Metropolitan Police]] strike. * In the aftermath of the [[War of the Triple Alliance]], new government of [[Paraguay]] makes peace with [[Brazil]], grant reparations and territorial concessions. * [[Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition]]. * Foundation of the ''Kolozsvári Egyetem'', the predecessor of the [[University of Szeged]]. * US government geologist [[Clarence King]] reveals the [[Diamond hoax of 1872|diamond hoax]] in [[Wyoming]]. * [[Thomas Hardy]] anonymously publishes his romantic novel ''[[Under the Greenwood Tree]]'' * The magazine [[popular science]] is first created ==Births== {{Year in other calendars |japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 4 &ndash; 5* |footnotes=* Last year on the [[Japanese calendar]] was in use a [[lunisolar calendar]].}} ===January - June=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[January 6]] - [[Alexander Scriabin]], Russian composer (d. [[1915]]) *[[January 23]] - [[Gotse Delchev]], [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] revolutionary (d. [[1903]])<!-- For the sake of NPOV please retain this version — his ethnicity (Bulgarian or Macedonian) — has been in dispute. --> *[[January 31]] - [[Zane Grey]], American writer (d. [[1939]]) *[[February 1]] - [[Jerome F. Donovan]], American politician (d. [[1949]]) *[[March 7]] - [[Piet Mondrian]], Dutch painter (d. [[1944]]) *[[March 24]] - [[J.C. Wienecke]], Dutch/German medallist (d. [[1945]]) *[[April 29]] - [[Harry Payne Whitney]], businessman, horse breeder (d. [[1930]]) *[[May 18]] - [[Bertrand Russell]], English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[1970]]) *[[May 21]] - [[Henry Warren]], Inventor of the first commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron *[[May 31]] **[[Charles Greeley Abbot]], American astrophysicist (d. [[1973]]) **[[Heath Robinson]], British cartoonist and illustrator (d. [[1944]]) *[[June 20]] - [[George Carpenter]], the 5th General of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. [[1948]]) *[[June 27]] - [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], American poet and publisher (d. [[1906]]) ===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[July 1]] - [[Louis Bleriot|Louis Blériot]], French aviation pioneer (d. [[1936]]) *[[July 4]] - [[Calvin Coolidge]], [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1933]]) *[[July 16]] - [[Roald Amundsen]], Norwegian polar explorer (d. [[1928]]) *[[August 3]] - King [[Haakon VII of Norway]] (d. [[1957]]) *[[August 9]] - [[Archduke Joseph August of Austria]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1962]]) *[[August 10]] - [[Bill Johnson (jazz musician)|Bill Johnson]], American jazz musician (d. [[1972]]) *[[August 13]] - [[Richard Willstätter]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1942]]) *[[August 15]] - [[Sri Aurobindo]], Indian nationalist, writer, and mystic (d. [[1950]]) *[[August 21]] - [[Aubrey Beardsley]], British artist (d. [[1898]]) *[[October 11]] - [[Harlan Fiske Stone|Harlan F. Stone]], [[United States Supreme Court/Chief Justice|Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1946]]) *[[November 30]] - [[John McCrae]], Canadian soldier and poet (d. [[1918]]) *[[December 21]] - [[Don Lorenzo Perosi]], Italian composer (d. [[1956]]) *[[December 26]] - [[Norman Angell]], British politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1967]]) : ''See also [[:Category: 1872 births]].'' == Deaths == ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 7]] - [[Big Jim Fisk]], American financier (b. [[1834]]) * [[January 21]] - [[Franz Grillparzer]], Austrian writer (b. [[1791]]) *March/April [[Mercator Cooper]], American sea captain (b.[[1803]]) * [[March 20]] - [[William Wentworth]], Australian explorer (b. [[1790]]) * [[April 1]] - [[Frederick Maurice]], English theologian (b. [[1805]]) * [[April 2]] - [[Samuel Morse]], American inventor (b. [[1791]]) * [[June 4]] - [[Stanisław Moniuszko]], Polish composer (b. [[1819]]) * [[June 4]] - [[Johan Rudolf Thorbecke]], Dutch politician (b. [[1798]]) * [[June 20]] - [[Elie Frédéric Forey]], Marshal of France (b. [[1804]]) ===July - December=== <!-- DEATHS --> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 18]] - [[Benito Juárez]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1806]]) * [[August 19]] - [[Charles XV of Sweden|Charles XV]], King of Sweden and Norway (b. [[1826]]) * [[September 10]] - [[Avram Iancu]], Romanian Transylvanian insurgent (b. [[1824]]) * [[September 13]] - [[Ludwig Feuerbach]], German philosopher (b. [[1804]]) * [[October 23]] - [[Théophile Gautier]], French writer (b. [[1811]]) * [[November 28]] - [[Mary Somerville]], British mathematician (b. [[1780]]) * [[November 29]] - [[Horace Greeley]], newspaper editor and presidential candidate (b. [[1811]]) * [[December 15]] - [[Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield|Lady Beaconsfield]], wife of [[Benjamin Disraeli]] (b. 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