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August – Asa Whitney, merchant and promoter of the first transcontinental railroad (born 1791) August 11 – Lowell Mason, organist and composer (born 1792) September 18 – Augustus Seymour Porter, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1840 to 1845 (born 1798) September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801)
1872 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 872nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1872, the ...
Racial and economic politics at the height of America's Reconstruction Era were bitter, pessimistic, and sometimes violent. The Gilded Age began in 1877, lasting until 1896. The First Spanish Republic rises and promptly ends (1873–1874). The first Ottoman Constitution is promulgated in 1876, starting the First Constitutional Era (1876–1878).
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
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1872: March 1: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs An Act to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River as a public park, creating Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park. [10] 1870: July 13: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant appoints Benjamin F. Potts the fourth Governor of the ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
1872 in the United States by state or territory (49 C) / 1872 disestablishments in the United States (10 C, 10 P) 1872 establishments in the United States (49 C, 16 P) C.