1872
year
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.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1872 MDCCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2625 |
| Armenian calendar | 1321 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6622 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 28–29 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1793–1794 |
| Bengali calendar | 1279 |
| Berber calendar | 2822 |
| British Regnal year | 35 Vict. 1 – 36 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2416 |
| Burmese calendar | 1234 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7380–7381 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4568 or 4508 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4569 or 4509 |
| Coptic calendar | 1588–1589 |
| Discordian calendar | 3038 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1864–1865 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5632–5633 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1928–1929 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1793–1794 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4972–4973 |
| Holocene calendar | 11872 |
| Igbo calendar | 872–873 |
| Iranian calendar | 1250–1251 |
| Islamic calendar | 1288–1289 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 5 (明治５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1800–1801 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4205 |
| Minguo calendar | 40 before ROC 民前40年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 404 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2414–2415 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1998 or 1617 or 845 — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1999 or 1618 or 846 |
Events
change- 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
change- January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and logician (d. 1970)
- July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th 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
change- 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)