Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1872 - Events. 1872 - January - April. January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ...

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1872 in rail transport - March events. March - John A. Dix succeeds Jay Gould as president of the Erie Railroad. March 5 - George Westinghouse receives a patent for the Westinghouse air brake. 1872 in rail transport - May events. May 1 - The South Devon Railway, in England, opens. May 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas, toward Colorado. May 18 - The Delaware and Raritan Ca ...

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Bertha Benz, born Bertha Ringer (born May 3, 1849 in Pforzheim, died May 5, 1944 in Ladenburg), was the first person who drove a car over a longer distance. Since July 20, 1872 wife of Carl Benz, she was the first person to drive an automobile over more than a very short distance. Without her husband's knowledge she drove with her 14 and 15 year old sons Richard and Eugen the newly constructed automobile August 5, 1888 from Mannheim to Pforzheim over a distance of 106 km. Other drives before were ...

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Carl XV (Carl Ludvig Eugén) (May 3, 1826 – August 19, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Charles IV (Carl IV)) from 1859 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. On June 19, 1851 he married Louise of the Netherlands, granddaughter of William I of the Netherlands. Charles XV of Sweden - Biography. Created Duke of Scania at birth, the Crown Prince was Viceroy of Norway briefly in 1856 and 1857. He became regent on Se ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1872 - Events. January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 200 years ...

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William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. William H. Seward - Family. His parents were Samuel Sweezy Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He was married to Frances Adeline Miller. They had two daughters and three sons. The daughters were Cornelia Seward (1835-1836) and Frances Adeline (Fanny) Seward (1844-1866). The three sons were William Henry Seward, Jr. (1839-1920), Frederick William Seward (1835-1915) and August ...

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The Tegetthoff with her crew of 24 left Tromsø in July 1872. At the end of August she got locked in pack-ice north of Novaya Zemlya and drifted to hitherto unknown polar regions. It was on this drift when the explorers discovered an archipelago which the named Franz-Josef Land after Austro-hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I. In May 1874 Payer decided to abandon the ice-locked ship and try to return by sledges and boats. On 14 August 1874 the expedition reached the ...

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1933 - January-March. January 1 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876) January 3 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (b. 1896) January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) January 7 - Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator (b. 1892) January 31 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) February 12 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848) February 15 - Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director ...

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