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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 ...
November 9 – Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street. The two-day event destroys about 65 acres (260,000 m 2) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage.
1872 elections in the United States by state (46 C) 1872 in American sports by state (5 C) A. ... 1872 in Pennsylvania (3 C, 2 P) R. 1872 in Rhode Island (2 C, 1 P) S.
The Times has been printing on every leap year since 1871. Take a look at how the newspaper covered this not-so-normal day. Leaping into the news of Leap Days past, we look back on historic headlines
City expands to the east by annexing the borough of Lawrenceville and the townships of Pitt, Oakland, Collins, Liberty, and Peebles. 1869 December 11: Pennsylvania Female College founded. Westinghouse Air Brake Company in business. 1870 May 28: The Monongahela Incline opens; 1872 South Side becomes part of city. [17] Trinity Cathedral built. 1873
The four boroughs were annexed into the City of Pittsburgh in 1872. [1] These areas, collectively, provided for the foundation of the South Side as it is known today. General James O'Hara and Major Isaac Craig , the pioneers of the glass industry in Pittsburgh, opened the first glass factory in the county in South Side, near the present-day ...
The year 2000 was a leap year, but it broke one of the rules: 2000/4 = 500 ...That completes the 1st rule. 2000/100 = 20 ...That breaks the leap year rule,
In the Gregorian calendar, the standard calendar in most of the world, [6] almost every fourth year is a leap year. Each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding one extra day in the calendar every 4 years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a tropical year by almost 6 hours. [7]