Major Events
- Jan 12 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, 1st 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 1st national park
- Apr 29 Jesse 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; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
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1872 in Sport
Did You Know?
Ship the Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean
Bertrand Russell
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Calvin Coolidge
Emil Hácha
Roald Amundsen
John McCrae
Wilfred Baddeley
William LarnedMore People Born in 1872
Samuel Morse
James Gordon Bennett
William H. SewardMore 1872 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1872
- Jan 19 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- Jun 17 Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (31) weds childhood friend Fanny Bowditch Dixwell
- Jul 20 Inventor Karl Benz (27) weds Bertha Ringer
More Weddings in 1872
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Otto von Bismarck
Ulysses S. Grant
William Gladstone