1872

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1869 1870 1871 – 1872 – 1873 1874 1875

1872 Media

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  Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts

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  Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) in fur

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  English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

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  Louisa Martindale. President of the Med. Womens Fed. (1930-1932).

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  Maude Adams

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  Hugovonmohl

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  Dr. Jonathan Letterman (1824-72)

1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• Levi Strauss invents jeans.
• American department store Montgomery Ward opens for business.
• Huntington's disease is defined for the first time.
• University of Toledo founded in Toledo, Ohio

Births

• January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and logician (d. 1970)
• July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth President of the United States (d. 1933)
• June 6 – Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress of Russia, wife of Nicholas II (d. 1918)
• July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928)
• August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, English artist (d. 1898)
• October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
• October 15 – Edith Bolling Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1961)
• November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian poet and soldier in World War I
• December 28 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (d. 1956)

Deaths

• January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer and poet (b. 1791)
• April 27 – Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1802)
• June 4 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
• November 29 – Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1811)
• December 23 - George Catlin, American painter (b. 1796)

Date unknown

• Karolina Bock, Swedish dancer, actress and singer (b. 1792)
• Petros Duryan, Armenian poet (b. 1851)