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1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was
a leap year starting on
Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
872nd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 72nd year of the 19th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. As of
the start of 1872, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Sources Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 12 – Yohannes IV is
crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum,
the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. ·
February 2 – The government of the
United Kingdom buys a number of forts on the Gold Coast,
from the Netherlands.[1] ·
February 4 – A great solar flare, and associated geomagnetic storm,
makes northern lights visible as far south as Cuba.[2] ·
February 13 – Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time
in New Orleans for Grand
Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. ·
February 17 – Filipino priests José Burgos, Mariano Gómez and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza, are executed in Bagumbayan
Fields, Manila, Philippines by
the authorities of New Spain, on
charges of subversionarising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. ·
February 20 – The Metropolitan
Museum of Art opens in New York City. ·
February 21 – Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun,
as predecessor of Mainichi Shimbun, first issued in Tokyo, Japan.[page needed] ·
March 1 – In the United States, Yellowstone
National Park (once dubbed "Colter's Hell"
after John Colter, of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition) is established as the world's first national park. ·
March 5 ·
George Westinghouse receives
a United States patent for
the "failsafe" automatic railway air brake. ·
The Tichborne case is decided in London
against claimant Arthur Orton (who,
as a result, is convicted of perjury in 1874). ·
March 11 – Work begins on the Seven
Sisters Colliery in South Wales, located on one of the richest
coal sources in Britain. ·
March 16 – 1872 FA Cup Final:
In the first ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football competition, Wanderers F.C. defeat Royal Engineers
A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.[3] ·
March 26 – The 7.4–7.9 Mw Lone Pine
earthquake shakes eastern California,
with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme); 27 people are killed and 56
injured. April–June[edit] ·
April 21 – The Third Carlist War begins
in northern Spain. Don Carlos, Duke of
Madrid (the Carlist pretender Carlos VII) appoints General
Rada commander-in-chief in Spain, and calls for a general rising. ·
May –
The magazine Popular Science is
first published in the United States. ·
May 4 – Third Carlist War in
Spain – Battle
of Oroquieta in Navarre: 1,000 government troops (Moriones) easily defeat the much larger number of Carlists
at Oroquieta. 50 Carlists are killed, and the Moriones take 700 prisoners, but Don Carlos escapes. ·
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 15 – The New Zealand Wars end after 17 years,
with the conclusion of Te Kooti's War; Maori spiritual leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuk crosses the Waikato River, and enters the territory
of the Māori King Tāwhiao, where he is granted
asylum. ·
May 22 ·
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 sympathizers. ·
Georges Bizet's comic opera Djamileh is premièred at
the Opéra-Comique in
Paris, France. ·
June – Rangers F.C. play their first ever game
on the public pitches of Glasgow Green in Scotland. ·
June 14 – Trade unions are legalised
in Canada.[4] July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – Thomas François
Burgers becomes State President of the South African Republic.[5] ·
July 4 – The Society of Jesus is pronounced illegal
in the German Empire. ·
August 22 – The Australian
Overland Telegraph Line is completed, providing a telegraphic
link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time. ·
September – Thomas Hardy anonymously publishes his
novel Under the
Greenwood Tree. ·
September 1 – A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul
attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras; the British send troops
against them. ·
September 18 – Upon the death of
King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway, he is succeeded as King of both
crowns by his brother Oscar II. ·
September 26 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is
established in New York City. October–December[edit] ·
The
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic
session (the university is later renamed Virginia Tech). ·
The
first case is reported in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of the Great Epizootic of
1872 (equine influenza,
or the "horse flu") which will substantially disrupt life in North
America by mid-December. ·
October 16 - University College Wales
(later to become Aberystwyth University) begins its
first academic session.[6] ·
U.S.
presidential election, 1872: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley. ·
Women's suffrage:
In defiance of the law, American suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first
time (on November 18 she
is served an arrest warrant, and in the subsequent trial is fined $100, which
she never pays). ·
November 7 – The Mary Celeste sets sail from New
York; bound for Genoa, Italy. ·
November 9 – Great Boston
Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn
on Lincoln Street (the 2-day disaster destroys about 65 acres (0.26 km2) of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district
and causes US$60 million in damage). ·
November 11 – U.S. government
geologist Clarence King reveals
the diamond hoax in Wyoming. ·
November 13 (07:35) (probable
date) – Claude Monet begins
painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression,
soleil levant, the painting that will give a name to Impressionism) as viewed from his hotel room
at Le Havre in France.[7] ·
November 16 – The London
Metropolitan Police go on strike. ·
November 27 – A meteor shower display of Andromedids is seen over France. ·
American Indian Wars:
The Modoc War begins with the Battle of
Lost River. ·
Horace Greeley, President Ulysses S. Grant's opponent in this
year's U.S. presidential election, dies. His electoral votes are
divided among several candidates. ·
November 30 – The first
international Association football match
to be recognised (retrospectively) by FIFA as
"official" takes place at Hamilton Crescent,
Scotland; the result is Scotland 0-0 England.[8] Earlier international football matches had
already taken place in 1870, in 1871 and again in 1872 at the Oval, London. ·
Responsible government is
granted to the Cape of Good Hope. ·
Sir John Molteno, first Prime Minister of the Cape of
Good Hope, forms the first Cape Cabinet.[9] ·
December 3 – George Smith presents
the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
to a meeting of the Society
of Biblical Archaeology in London. ·
December 4 – The now-crewless American
ship Mary Celeste is
found (still seaworthy) by the British brig Dei Gratia in
the Atlantic. ·
December 6 – Springwell Pit
disaster at Dawley, England: Eight coal miners fall to
their death, when a winding chain snaps. ·
6.5-7
magnitude earthquake takes place in the Cascade mountains in
northern Washington. ·
President Ulysses S. Grant establishes the San
Carlos Apache Reservation, in southeastern Arizona. ·
December 21 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger (1858) sails
from Portsmouth, England
on the 4-year scientific expedition that lays the foundation for the science
of oceanography. Date unknown[edit] ·
In
the aftermath of the Paraguayan War, the new government of Paraguay makes peace with Brazil, grants reparations and territorial
concessions. ·
The Cape Government
Railways is established, and takes over the operation of all
private railways in the Colony.[10][11] ·
The Kolozsvári Egyetem,
predecessor of the University of Szeged,
is founded. ·
A
conscription law, modeled on the French version, is issued in Japan. ·
Universal public
schools are called for in Japan. ·
The
first Marist Brothers arrive
in Australia. ·
Alfred
B. Miller and Elmer Crockett found the South Bend Tribune in
the United States. ·
Founding
of ST Dupont, a French manufacturer of luxury
goods. Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 6 – Alexander Scriabin,
Russian composer (d. 1915) ·
January 13 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general
(d. 1928) ·
January 14 – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician (d. 1962) ·
January 20 – Julia Morgan, American architect (d. 1957) ·
January 23 – Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903) ·
January 31 – Zane Grey, American writer (d. 1939) ·
February 1 – Jerome F. Donovan,
American politician (d. 1949) ·
February 6 – Robert Maillart,
Swiss civil engineer (d. 1940) ·
February 11 – Hannah Mitchell, English socialist,
suffragette (d. 1956) ·
February 24 – Gustave Sandras,
French artistic gymnast (d. 1951) ·
February 27 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, 3-time Prime Minister
of Romania (d. 1950) ·
February 28 – Mehdi Frashëri,
Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister
of Albania (d. 1963) ·
March 3 – Willie Keeler, American baseball legend
(d. 1923) ·
March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944) ·
March 11 – Kathleen Clarice
Groom, British writer (d. 1954) ·
March 15 – Harry Holman, American character actor
(d. 1947) ·
March 23 – Michael Joseph
Savage, 23rd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940) ·
March 24 – J. C. Wienecke, Dutch medallist
(d. 1945) ·
April 9 – Léon Blum, French politician, Prime Minister
of France (d. 1950) ·
April 14 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
Indian-born Islamic scholar, translator (d. 1953) ·
April 29 – Harry Payne Whitney,
American businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930) ·
May 1 – Sidónio Pais,
4th President, 66th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1918) ·
May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese author (d. 1896) ·
May 6 – William Bowie,
American geodetic engineer (d. 1940) ·
May 12 – Anton Korošec,
Slovenian political leader (d. 1940) ·
May 16 – John
O'Connell, American baseball player (d. 1908) ·
May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and
mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (d. 1970) ·
May 21 – Henry E. Warren, inventor of the first
commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron (d. 1957) ·
May 31 ·
Charles Greeley
Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973) ·
W. Heath Robinson,
British cartoonist, illustrator (d. 1944) ·
June 6 – Alexandra
Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (d. 1918) ·
June 8 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949) ·
June 13 – Thomas N. Heffron,
American film director (d. 1951) ·
June 14 – János Szlepecz, Slovene writer, priest
(d. 1936) ·
June 20 – George
Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948) ·
June 22 – Charles
Murray, American actor (d. 1941) ·
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar,
American poet, publisher (d. 1906) July–December[edit] ·
July 1 – Louis Blériot,
French aviation pioneer (d. 1936) ·
July 2 – Horace Short, British aircraft designer
(d. 1917) ·
July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President
of the United States (d. 1933) ·
July 5 – Édouard Herriot,
3-time Prime Minister of France (d. 1957) ·
July 12 – Emil Hácha, 3rd
President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1945) ·
July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer
(d. 1928) ·
July 25 – Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern
Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia (d. 1955) ·
July 28 – Albert Sarraut, 2-time
Prime Minister of France (d. 1962) ·
August 2 – George E. Stewart,
American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946) ·
August 3 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957) ·
August 4 – Ruth Ward Kahn, American lecturer and writer
(unknown year of death) ·
August 9 – Archduke
Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962) ·
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) ·
August 26 – Joseph Taylor
Robinson, American politician (d. 1937) ·
September 13 – Kijūrō Shidehara, 31st Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1951) ·
September 20 – Maurice Gamelin,
French general (d. 1958) ·
David Unaipon,
Australian author, inventor (d. 1967) ·
Charles F. Watkins,
American physician (d. 1936) ·
October 4 – Roger Keyes,
1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (d. 1945) ·
October 6 – Carl Gustaf Ekman,
2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1945) ·
October 11 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1946) ·
October 12 – Ralph Vaughan
Williams, English composer (d. 1958) ·
Wilhelm Miklas,
3rd President of Austria (d. 1956) ·
Edith Wilson, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1961) ·
October 30 – Louisa Martindale,
British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (d. 1966) ·
November 1 – Louis Dewis,
Belgian Post-Impressionist painter
(d. 1946) ·
November 4 – Barbu Știrbey,
30th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946) ·
November 11 – Maude Adams, American stage actress
(d. 1953) ·
November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and
poet (d. 1918) ·
December 3 – William Haselden, Spanish cartoonist
(d. 1953) ·
December 8 – Mace Greenleaf, American actor (d. 1912) ·
December 11 – René Bull, British illustrator, photographer
(d. 1942) ·
December 16 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin,
Imperial Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1947) ·
December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi,
Italian composer (d. 1956) ·
December 26 – Norman Angell, English politician, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967) Date unknown[edit] ·
Fok Hing Tong, also known as Huo Qingtang, Hong Kong
business woman and social reformer (d. 1957) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 7 – Big Jim Fisk, American financier (b. 1834) ·
January 9 – Henry Halleck, American general (b. 1815) ·
January 21 – Franz Grillparzer,
Austrian writer (b. 1791) ·
March
or April – Mercator Cooper,
American sea captain (b. 1803) ·
March 8 – Priscilla Susan Bury,
British botanist (b. 1799) ·
March 11 – Emily Taylor, English schoolmistress
(b. 1795) ·
March 12 – Zeng Guofan (traditional
Chinese: 曾國藩 ), Chinese official, military general and
Confucian scholar (b. 1811) ·
March 20 – William Wentworth,
Australian explorer (b. 1790) ·
April 1 ·
Frederick
Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805) ·
Hugo von Mohl,
German botanist (b. 1805) ·
April 2 – Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791) ·
June 4 ·
Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish
composer (b. 1819) ·
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798) ·
June 20 – Élie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France
(b. 1804) July–December[edit] ·
July 18 – Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806) ·
September 1 – Robert Gray,
first Bishop of
Cape Town (b. 1809) ·
September 10 – Avram Iancu,
Romanian Transylvanian insurgent (b. 1824) ·
September 13 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher
(b. 1804) ·
September 18 – Charles XV,
King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826) ·
September 18 – Ana María
Martínez de Nisser, Colombian heroine,
writer (b. 1812) ·
October 4 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer
(b. 1801) ·
October 10 – William H. Seward, 24th United
States Secretary of State (b. 1801) ·
October 23 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811) ·
October 25 – William F. Johnston,
American politician (b. 1808) ·
November 6 – George Meade, American Civil War general
(b. 1815) ·
November 28 – Mary Somerville, British mathematician
(b. 1780) ·
November 29 – Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor,
Democratic presidential candidate (b. 1811) ·
December 15 – Lady Beaconsfield,
wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792) ·
December 31 – Aleksis Kivi,
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