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* [[January 4]] - [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], entrepreneur |
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*[[September 2]] - [[Constantine Kanaris]] - Greek politician |
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*[[September 5]] - [[Crazy Horse]], Chief of the [[Oglala Sioux]]. |
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* [[October 16]] - [[Theodore Barrière]], French dramatist |
* [[October 16]] - [[Theodore Barrière]], French dramatist |
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Revision as of 08:25, 7 May 2003
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 - 1877 - 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Events
- January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana)
- March 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: The United States declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876
- March 4 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
- March 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts
- March 15 - The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia
- May 6 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire (does this war have a name?), leading to the formation of Bulgaria in 1878. See Russian Foreign Affairs after the Crimean War.
- Phonograph patented by Thomas Alva Edison
- Porfirio Diaz becomes President of Mexico
- Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births
- February 17 - Andre Maginot, politician, Maginot Line (+ 1932)
- February 19 - Gabriele Münter, painter, member of Blaue Reiter (+ 1962)
- March 18 - Edgar Cayce, psychic (+ 1945)
- June 14 - Jane Bathori, opera singer
- July 2 - Hermann Hesse
Deaths
- January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur
- September 2 - Constantine Kanaris - Greek politician
- September 5 - Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux.
- October 16 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist