1872

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\n1872 in Canada\n----\nList of state leaders in 1872
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 2 - Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).\n* February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.\n* March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park\n* March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.\n* March 5 - The case of Tichborne Claimant decided against the claimant Arthur Orton\n* March 26 - Earthquake at Lone Pine, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 .\n* May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.\n* May 22 - Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.\n* June 14 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.[1]\n* November - Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley in the U.S. presidential election\n* November 5 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, 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).\n* November 7 – Mary Celeste sets sail from New York, bound for Genoa\n* 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).\n* November 26 - The San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposes one of the most notorious mining scandals in US history, The Great Diamond Hoax.\n* November 27 - Meteor rain display over France\n* November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.\n* 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).\n* December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography \n* London Metropolitan Police strike\n* In the aftermath of the War of the Triple Alliance, new government of Paraguay makes peace with Brazil, grant reparations and territorial concessions\n* Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition

Births

\n* January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (d. 1915)\n* January 31 - Zane Grey, writer (d. 1939)\n* March 7 - Piet Mondrian, painter (d. 1944)\n* April 29 – Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (+ 1930)\n* May 18 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher and logician\n* May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator.\n* July 1 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer\n* July 4 - Calvin Coolidge, American president\n* August 3 - King Haakon VII of Norway\n* August 10 - Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972)\n* August 15 - Shri Aurobindo\n* August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist\n* November 30 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)

Deaths

\n* January 7 - James Fisk, entrepreneur\n* April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian\n* April 2 - Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse code\n* June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician\n* November 28 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, UK mathematician\n* December 23 - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist\n* Germany, Death of Ludwig Feuerbach, German Philosophy\n* Benito Juárez \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n