What is 1872?
{{Year nav|1872}} {{Year in various calendars|1872}} '''1872''' ([[Roman numerals|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. == Events == * [[Levi Strauss]] invents [[jeans]]. * [[United States|American]] [[department store]] [[Montgomery Ward]] opens for business. * [[Huntington's disease]] is defined for the first time. * [[University of Toledo]] founded in [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]], [[Ohio]] == Births == * [[January 6]] – [[Alexander Scriabin]], [[Russia]]n [[composer]] (d. [[1915]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Bertrand Russell]], [[England|English]] [[Philosophy|philosopher]] and [[logic]]ian (d. [[1970]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Calvin Coolidge]], 30th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1933]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Alexandra Fyodorovna]], [[emperor|Empress]] of [[Russia]], wife of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] (d. [[1918]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Roald Amundsen]], [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[South Pole|polar]] explorer (d. [[1928]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Aubrey Beardsley]], English [[art]]ist (d. [[1898]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer (d. [[1958]]) * [[October 15]] – [[Edith Bolling Wilson]], [[United States|American]] [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]], wife of [[Woodrow Wilson]] (d. [[1961]]) * [[November 30]] – [[John McCrae]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] poet and soldier in [[World War I]] * [[December 28]] – [[Pio Baroja]], [[Spain|Spanish]] [[writer]] (d. [[1956]]) == Deaths == * [[January 21]] – [[Franz Grillparzer]], [[Austria]]n [[writer]] and [[Poetry|poet]] (b. [[1791]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Ion Heliade Rădulescu]], [[Romania]]n writer and [[politics|politician]] (b. [[1802]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Johan Rudolf Thorbecke]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] politician (b. [[1798]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Horace Greeley]], American [[new