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1872 (MDCCCLXXII ) was aleap year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Saturday of theJulian calendar , the 1872nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 72nd year of the19th century , and the 3rd year of the1870s 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.
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February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on theGold Coast , from the Netherlands.[ 2] February 4 – A greatsolar flare , and associatedgeomagnetic storm , makes northern lights visible as far south as Cuba.[ 3] February 13 –Rex , the most famous parade onMardi Gras , parades for the first time inNew Orleans forGrand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia .February 17 –Filipino priestsJosé Burgos ,Mariano Gomez andJacinto Zamora , collectively known asGomburza , are executed in Bagumbayan Fields, Manila,Philippines by the authorities ofNew Spain , on charges ofsubversion arising from the1872 Cavite mutiny .February 20 – TheMetropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.[ 4] February 22 – TheProhibition Party holds its first national convention inColumbus, Ohio , nominatingJames Black as its presidential nominee.May 4 – The magazinePopular Science May 10 –Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated forPresident of the United States , although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.May 14 – TheBattle of Mañaria , nearBilbao , Spain during theThird Carlist War (1872–1876).May 15 – TheNew Zealand Wars end after 17 years, with the conclusion ofTe Kooti's War ; Maori spiritual leaderTe Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuk crosses the Waikato River, and enters the territory of the Māori KingTāwhiao , where he is granted asylum.May 22 May –Rangers F.C. , founded in March as anAssociation football club inGlasgow (Scotland) by brothersMoses andPeter McNeil ,Peter Campbell andWilliam McBeath , play their first ever game on the public pitches ofGlasgow Green , a 0 to 0 draw against Callander.Daguerreotype of Benito Juárez as president of Mexico. October 1 The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session (the university is later renamedVirginia 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 becomeAberystwyth University ) begins its first academic session.[ 12] November 5 November 7 – TheMary Celeste November 9 –Great Boston Fire of 1872 : InBoston ,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 geologistClarence King reveals thediamond hoax inWyoming .November 12 –Dresdner Bank is founded inDresden, Germany .November 13 –Claude Monet begins paintingImpression, Sunrise Impression, soleil levant , the painting that will give a name toImpressionism ) as viewed from his hotel room atLe Havre in France.[ 13] November 16 – The first everMetropolitan Police strike in London.November 22 – "Spitzeder Swindle":Adele Spitzeder 's pioneeringPonzi scheme inMunich collapses.November 27 – Ameteor shower display ofAndromedids is seen over France.November 29 November 30 – The first internationalAssociation football match to be recognised (retrospectively) by FIFA as "official" takes place atHamilton Crescent , Scotland; the result is Scotland 0-0 England.[ 14] Earlier international football matches have already taken place in 1870,in 1871 andagain in 1872 atthe Oval , London.In the aftermath of theParaguayan War , the new government ofParaguay makes peace withBrazil , granting reparations and territorial concessions. TheKolozsvári Egyetem , predecessor of theUniversity of Szeged , is founded. Under Japan'sMeiji Restoration :A conscription law, modeled on the French version, is issued. Universalpublic schools are called for. The firstMarist Brothers travel to Australia. S. T. Dupont begins the manufacture of luxury leather goods in France.Kimberly, Clark and Co. is founded inNeenah, Wisconsin , byJohn A. Kimberly ,Charles B. Clark ,Havilah Babcock andFranklyn C. Shattuck .Essendon Football Club is founded inMelbourne, Australia .January 6 –Alexander Scriabin , Russian composer (d.1915 )January 11 –Georg Karo , German archaeologist (d.1963 )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 2 –Abul Kasem , Bengali politician (d.1936 )[ 17] February 6 –Robert Maillart , Swiss civil engineer (d.1940 )February 11 –Hannah Mitchell , English socialist, suffragette (d.1956 )February 19 –Johan Pitka , Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain, and admiral (d.1944 )February 27 –Alexandru Vaida-Voevod , 3-time prime minister of Romania (d.1950 )February 28 –Mehdi Frashëri , Albanian politician, 15thPrime Minister of Albania (d.1963 )March 3 –Willie Keeler , American baseball player (d.1923 )March 7 –Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (d.1944 )March 18 –Ludwig Herzer , Austrian musician and composer (d.1939 )March 19 –Anna Held , Polish-born French actress (d.1918 )March 23 –Michael Joseph Savage , 23rdPrime Minister of New Zealand (d.1940 )March 28 –José Sanjurjo , Spanish general (d.1936 )Ladislas Lazaro Paul Laurence Dunbar 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 18 –Bertrand Russell , British philosopher and mathematician, recipient of theNobel Prize in Literature (d.1970 )May 22 –Kim Gap-sun , bureaucrat and modern Korean businessman, politician, and realtor(d.1961 )[ 18] May 31 June 3 –Saburō Hyakutake , Japanese admiral (d.1963 )June 5 –Ladislas Lazaro ,U.S. Representatives fromLouisiana (d.1927 )June 6 –Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (d.1918 )June 8 –Jan Frans De Boever , Belgian painter (d.1949 )June 22 –Charles Murray , American actor (d.1941 )June 27 –Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet, publisher (d.1906 )Calvin Coolidge Roald Amundsen Aubrey Beardsley Louisa Martindale Maude Adams July 1 –Louis Blériot , French aviation pioneer (d.1936 )July 4 –Calvin Coolidge , 30thPresident 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 )[ 19] July 23 –Edward Adrian Wilson , English polar explorer (d.1912 )July 28 –Albert Sarraut , 2-time prime minister of France (d.1962 )August 3 – KingHaakon VII of Norway (d.1957 )August 9 –Archduke Joseph August of Austria , Austrian field marshal (d.1962 )August 10 –William Manuel Johnson , American jazz double-bassist (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 , English illustrator (d.1898 )[ 20] August 23 –Egerton Reuben Stedman , Canadian politician (d.1946 )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 )September 21 –Henry Tingle Wilde , British mariner, Chief OfficerRMS Titanic (d.1912 )September 28 –David Unaipon , Aboriginal Australian preacher, author and inventor (d.1967 )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 October 12 –Ralph Vaughan Williams , English composer (d.1958 )October 15 October 27 –Emily Post , American etiquette expert (d.1960 )October 30 –Louisa Martindale , British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (d.1966 )November 1 –Louis Dewis , BelgianPost-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 20 –Joseph M. Reeves , American admiral (d.1948 )[ 21] November 30 –John McCrae , Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (d.1918 )December 3 –William Haselden , Spanish-born English cartoonist (d.1953 )December 7 –Johan Huizinga , Dutch cultural historian (d.1945 )December 8 –Mace Greenleaf , American actor (d.1912 )December 11 –René Bull , British illustrator, photographer (d.1942 )December 14 –John Smith Archibald , Canadian architect (d.1934 )December 16 –Anton Ivanovich Denikin , Imperial Russian Lieutenant General (d.1947 )December 21 –Lorenzo Perosi , Italian composer (d.1956 )December 26 –Norman Angell , English politician, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1967 )Hugo von Mohl Jonathan Letterman Samuel Morse James Gordon Bennett Sr. January 7 –Big Jim Fisk , American financier (b.1835 )January 9 –Henry Halleck , American general (b.1815 )January 13 –William Scamp , English architect and engineer (b.1801 )[ 22] January 21 –Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer (b.1791 )February 4 –John L. Burns , American veteran of theWar of 1812 , civilian combatant for theUnion Army during theAmerican Civil War . (b.1793 )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 15 –Jonathan Letterman , American surgeon, "father" of battlefield medicine. (b.1824 )March 20 –William Wentworth , Australian explorer (b.1790 )April 1 April 2 –Samuel Morse , American inventor (b.1791 )April 16 –Adolf von Bonin , Prussian general (b.1803 )June 1 –James Gordon Bennett Sr. , Scottish-American newspaper tycoon (b.1795 )[ 23] June 4 June 20 –Élie Frédéric Forey , Marshal of France (b.1804 )Ludwig Feuerbach Lady Beaconsfield Aleksis Kivi July 15 –Mary Eliza Herbert , Canadian publisher and writer (b.1829 )July 18 –Benito Juárez , President of Mexico (1858-1872), of a heart attack (b.1806 )[ 24] September 1 –Robert Gray , firstBishop 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 23 –Sir John Bowring , British colonial administrator, 4thGovernor of Hong Kong (b.1792 )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 ofBenjamin Disraeli (b.1792 )December 31 –Aleksis Kivi , Finnish national author (b.1834 )[ 25] ^ Foreman, J., 1906, The set course for her patrol area off the northeastern coast of the main Japanese islandHonshū . She arrived, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 294– 295.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ "Cuba. Miscellaneous Gossip" (PDF) .The New York Times . 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