1872

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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.

1 Events of 1872
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December
4 References

Events of 1872

January - June

January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy (28 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 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 railway air brake.
- The case of Tichborne Claimant decided against the claimant Arthur Orton.
March 11 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in 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: 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 legalised in Canada. ^[1]

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.
September 1 - Group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras. British send troops against them.
[[September 7-9 Great Chicago fire. Sending Millions of dollars of damage to the people.
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.
- 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 1872 U.S. presidential election, dies. His electoral votes are divided among several candidates.

November 30 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland; the result is Scotland 0, England 0.^[2]

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 13 - The Mary Celeste is found off the coast of Portugal completely void of life.
December 21 - 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 photograph. [1]
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 in Wyoming.
Thomas Hardy anonymously publishes his romantic novel Under the Greenwood Tree

Births

**1872 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1872 MDCCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2625
Armenian calendar	1321 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	28 – 29
Berber calendar	2822
Buddhist calendar	2416
Burmese calendar	1234
Chinese calendar	4508/4568-11-21 (辛未年十一月廿一日) — to — 4509/4569-12-2 (壬申年十二月初二日)
Coptic calendar	1588 – 1589
Ethiopian calendar	1864 – 1865
Hebrew calendar	5632 – 5633
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1927 – 1928
- Shaka Samvat	1794 – 1795
- Kali Yuga	4973 – 4974
Holocene calendar	11872
Iranian calendar	1250 – 1251
Islamic calendar	1288 – 1289
Japanese calendar	Meiji 5 (明治5年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2532 (皇紀2532年)
Korean calendar	4205
Thai solar calendar	2415
* Last year on the Japanese calendar was in use a lunisolar calendar.
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