Dates by Year
Major Events
- Jan 12 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in Axum in over 200 years
- Feb 20 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
- Mar 1 Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park
- Apr 29Jesse James' gang robs a bank of $1,500 in Columbia, Kentucky, killing bank employee Robert A.C. Martin during the crime
- Nov 7 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa and is mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
1872 in Sport
Did You Know?
The ship Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean
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Famous Weddings in 1872
- Jan 19 German physicist and X-ray pioneerWilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, until her death in1919
- Jun 17 JuristOliver Wendell Holmes Jr (31) weds childhood friend Fanny Bowditch Dixwell
- Jul 20 InventorKarl Benz (27) weds Bertha Ringer
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Otto von Bismarck
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