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1872

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of State

Events

• January 2 - Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
• February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
• March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park
• March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• 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.
• May 22 - Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• November - Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley in the U.S. presidential election
• November 5 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, 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 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 of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
• November 26 - The San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposes one of the most notorious mining scandals in US history, The Great Diamond Hoax.
• November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
• December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography
• Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition

Year in topic

• 1872 in literature
• 1872 in music
• 1872 in science

Births

• January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (d. 1915)
• January 31 - Zane Grey, writer (d. 1939)
• March 7 - Piet Mondrian, painter (d. 1944)
• April 29 – Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (+ 1930)
• May 18 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher and logician
• May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator.
• July 1 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer
• July 4 - Calvin Coolidge, American president
• August 3 - King Haakon VII of Norway
• August 10 - Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972)
• August 15 - Shri Aurobindo
• August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist
• November 30 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)

Deaths

• January 7 - James Fisk, entrepreneur
• April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian
• April 2 - Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse code
• June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician
• December 23 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
• Germany, Death of Ludwig Feuerbach, German Philosophy
• Benito Juarez

Heads of State

• China - Tóngzhì Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1861-1875)
• Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
• France - Adolphe Thiers, President of France (1871-1873)
• Germany - Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
• Holy See - Pope Pius IX, Bishop of Rome (1846-1878)
• Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
• Norway -
  1. Charles IV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
  2. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
• Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1861-1876)
• Russia - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-1881)
• Spain - Amadeus I, King of Spain (1870-1873)
• United States - Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States (1869-1877)

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