1872

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 ).

EVENTS OF 1872

January - March

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 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum Of Art closes for "urban renovation".

March 1 - 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.

April - June

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.

signs the Amnesty Act Of 1872 into law restoring full Civil Rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

June 14 - Trade Union s legalised in Canada . {Link without Title}

July - September

July 4 - Society Of Jesus is pronounced illegal in the German Empire .

September 1 - Group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras . British send troops against them.

October - December

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 .

--- 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.

, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres (0.3 km&²) 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

--- begins with the Battle of Lost River.

--- November 29 - Horace Greeley , President Grant 's opponent in the United States Presidential Election, 1872 , dies. His electoral votes are divided among several candidates.

November 30 - First ever international Football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent , Scotland . Scotland 0 England 0

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 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 . {Link without Title}

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 ...

Virginia Tech is established.

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