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| Years: 1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875 | |
| Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s | |
| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century | |
1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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Events
January - April
- January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
- January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 200 years.
- 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 5 - The case of Tichborne Claimant decided against the claimant Arthur Orton
- March 26 - Earthquake at Lone Pine, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 .
May - August
- 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.
- June 14 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.[1] (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A218)
September - December
- 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 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 rain display over France
- November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- November 30 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
- 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 12 - A meteorite struck earth near Banbury, England.
- December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography
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- 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
Births
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- January 23 - Goce Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
- January 31 - Zane Grey, American writer (d. 1939)
- March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- April 29 - Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930)
- May 18 - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and logician (d. 1970)
- May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944)
- July 1 - 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 10 - 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 F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
- November 30 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)
- Charles Greely Abbot, American astrophysicist
Deaths
- January 7 - Big Jim Fisk, American financier (b. 1834)
- January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
- April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
- April 2 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
- June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
- July 18 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
- September 13 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
- October 23 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- November 28 - Mary Somerville, British mathematician (b. 1780)
- December 15 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792)af:1872
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