Year 1872 (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. [edit] Events of 1872 [edit] January–June - January 2 – Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy (55 wives).
- January 12 – 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, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia.
- February 17 – Execution of the Filipino priests: Jose Burgos, Mariano Gomez, and Jacinto Zamora in Bagumbayan Fields, Manila, Philippines.
- 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
- March 11 – Work begins erecting the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- March 26 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 strikes Lone Pine, California.
- April The Third Carlist War begins in northern Spain.
- May-The Third Carlist War-Carlist Army is defeated at the Battle of Oroquieta, Navarra,Spain.
- 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: 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.
- June 14 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada. [1]
[edit] July–December - July 4 – The 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.
- September 1 – A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras; the British send troops against them.
- September 26 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
- October 1 – The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session (the university is later renamed Virginia Tech).
- November 5
- November 7 – The 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 2-day event destroys about 65 acres (0.3 km²) of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage).
- November 27 – A meteor shower display is seen over France.
- November 29
- November 30 – First international football match to be recognised (retrospectively) by FIFA as "official" takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland; the result is Scotland 0, England 0.[2] Earlier international soccer matches had already taken place in 1870, in 1871 and again in 1872 at the Oval, London.
- December 4 – The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia.
- December 6 – The Springwell Pit Disaster in Dawley, UK claims eight lives.
- December 21 – HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4-year scientific expedition that lays the foundation for the science of oceanography.
[edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- January 14 – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician
- 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 11 – Hannah Mitchell, English socialist and suffragette (d. 1956)
- March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- March 24 – J.C. Wienecke, Dutch/German medallist (d. 1945)
- April 14 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
- April 29 – Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930)
- 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 Warren, inventor of the first commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron
- May 31
- June 8 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- June 20 – George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
- June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (d. 1906)
[edit] July–December - 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 2 – George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
- 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, 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 1 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
- November 11 – Maude Adams, American stage actress (d. 1953)
- November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)
- December 16 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Imperial Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1947)
- December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
- December 26 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967)
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