Today in History for Year 1872

Months in Year 1872: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 70 of 70

Jan 3rd - 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
Jan 12th - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
Jan 20th - California Stock Exchange Board organized
Jan 29th - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
Feb 7th - Alcorn A & M College opens
Feb 14th - 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
Feb 20th - Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
Feb 20th - Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
Feb 20th - Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
Feb 20th - Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
Feb 22nd - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
Feb 27th - Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Howard University
Mar 1st - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
Mar 5th - George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
Mar 7th - -8°F in Boston, MA
Mar 11th - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
Mar 11th - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
Mar 16th - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
Mar 22nd - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
Entrepreneur and Engineer George Westinghouse Mar 26th - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
Mar 26th - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
Apr 1st - 1st edition of The Standard
Apr 2nd - George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
Apr 9th - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
Apr 10th - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
Apr 10th - 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
Apr 12th - Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)
Apr 14th - Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
Apr 14th - San Francisco organizes Bar Association
Apr 20th - SF Bar Association organized
Apr 24th - Volcano Vesuvius erupts
May 10th - Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
May 16th - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
May 17th - Bohemian Club incorporated
Outlaw Jesse James May 22nd - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
Jun 1st - 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
Jun 5th - Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
Jun 8th - Congress endorses penny post card
Jun 14th - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
Jun 18th - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
Jul 9th - Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
Jul 18th - Britain introduces secret ballot voting
Jul 30th - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
Aug 18th - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
Aug 23rd - 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
Sep 10th - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
Sep 14th - Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
Sep 17th - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
Sep 18th - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx Sep 21st - John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis
Sep 24th - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
Sep 26th - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
Sep 29th - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
Sep 29th - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
Oct 2nd - Morgan State University founded
Oct 3rd - Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
Oct 9th - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
Oct 12th - Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie
Oct 19th - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
Oct 29th - J S Risdon patents metal windmill
Nov 5th - American women's right to vote advocate Susan B Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant
Nov 5th - Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US president
Nov 7th - cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later
Nov 9th - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
US President Ulysses S. Grant Nov 22nd - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague
Nov 29th - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
Nov 30th - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
Dec 7th - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
Dec 11th - 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
Dec 26th - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 141

Jan 4th - Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
Jan 6th - Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
Jan 11th - Paul Graener, composer
Jan 11th - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
Jan 15th - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
Jan 16th - Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)
Jan 16th - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
Jan 18th - Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
Jan 21st - Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
Jan 23rd - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
Jan 23rd - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
Jan 24th - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
Jan 24th - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
Jan 27th - Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
Jan 31st - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
Feb 1st - Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
Feb 1st - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
Feb 1st - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
Feb 3rd - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
Feb 4th - Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
Feb 6th - Theodor Lessing, writer [or Feb 8]
Feb 7th - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
Feb 10th - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
Feb 24th - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
Mar 3rd - Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (Mar 7th) Mar 7th - Piet Mondrian, Amersfoort, Netherlands, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
Mar 7th - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
Mar 8th - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
Mar 8th - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
Mar 10th - Felix Borowski, composer
Mar 11th - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
Mar 13th - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
Mar 17th - Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
Mar 18th - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
Mar 18th - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
Mar 19th - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
Mar 20th - Bernhard Seklas, composer
Mar 20th - Karin Michaelis, writer
Mar 25th - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
Mar 28th - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco)
Mar 30th - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
Mar 31st - Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
Apr 1st - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
Apr 4th - Nikolai Amani, composer
Apr 4th - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch singer
Apr 5th - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
Apr 7th - William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American rights activist
Apr 9th - Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
Apr 13th - A Roda Roda, writer
Apr 14th - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
Apr 21st - GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
Apr 22nd - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
Apr 23rd - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
Apr 25th - Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
Apr 29th - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
Apr 29th - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
May 1st - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
May 2nd - G G van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
May 6th - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)
May 10th - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
May 14th - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
May 18th - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
May 21st - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
May 28th - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
May 31st - Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
May 31st - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
Jun 6th - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
Jun 20th - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
Jun 27th - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
Jul 1st - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
Jul 3rd - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
30th US President Calvin Coolidge (Jul 4th) Jul 4th - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29), (d. 1933)
Jul 5th - Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
Jul 7th - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
Jul 13th - Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP
Jul 16th - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
Jul 18th - Julius Fucik, composer
Jul 20th - Alick Maclean, composer
Jul 20th - Deodat de Severac, composer
Jul 22nd - David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
Jul 26th - George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
Jul 27th - Stanislav Binicki, composer
Jul 28th - Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911..19)/PM (1933/36)
Jul 29th - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
Jul 30th - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
Aug 2nd - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
Aug 3rd - Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
Aug 5th - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
Aug 7th - Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31)
Aug 9th - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
Aug 11th - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
Aug 12th - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
Aug 13th - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
Aug 15th - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
Aug 15th - Rubin Goldmark, composer
Aug 21st - Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
Aug 24th - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
Aug 28th - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
Sep 4th - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress/wife of Joseph of Lyre
Sep 9th - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 54 of 54

Jan 7th - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
Jan 21st - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
Feb 21st - Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
Mar 4th - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
Mar 10th - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
Mar 12th - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
Mar 30th - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76
Apr 1st - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
Apr 1st - William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
Apr 2nd - Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
Apr 9th - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
Apr 12th - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
Apr 20th - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
Apr 27th - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
May 1st - Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
May 15th - Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
May 17th - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
May 19th - Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
May 24th - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
Inventor Samuel Morse (Apr 2nd) Jun 3rd - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
Jun 4th - Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
Jun 4th - Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53
Jun 16th - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
Jun 28th - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
Jul 18th - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
Jul 26th - Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
Jul 28th - Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies
Aug 2nd - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
Aug 11th - Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
Aug 19th - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
Sep 2nd - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
Sep 7th - Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21
Sep 13th - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
Sep 14th - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
Sep 18th - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
Sep 22nd - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
Oct 2nd - Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies
Oct 10th - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
Oct 14th - Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63
Oct 21st - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
Oct 23rd - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
Nov 7th - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
Nov 23rd - Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies
Nov 28th - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
Nov 29th - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
Nov 29th - Giovanni Tadolini, composer, dies at 83
Nov 29th - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at 61
Dec 11th - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
Dec 12th - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
Dec 13th - Helena Beeloo, a maid, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 13th - W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 24th - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
Dec 28th - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
Dec 31st - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38