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* 1872 – Challenger expedition:, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
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Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.
Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).
* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )
* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )
* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )
* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )
* 1872 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian ( b. 1805 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )
* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )
* 1872 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher ( d. 1950 )
* 1872 – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein ( d. 1956 )
* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )
In 1872 he ran for election to fill Tennessee's new at – large seat in the House of Representatives.
* 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ( d. 1872 )
* 1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-Islamic scholar and translator ( d. 1953 )
* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).
* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )
* Rangers First Centenary 1872 – 1972: 1
* 1872 – Bill Johnson, American bassist ( d. 1972 )
* 1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer ( b. 1872 )
* Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) ( 1872 – 1918 ), wife of Nicholas II of Russia
* Alexandra Kollontai ( 1872 – 1952 ), Russian politician
He married thirdly in 1872 to Circassian HH Gevherin Nedaxe Kadın Efendi ( Caucasus, 8 July 1856 – Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Constantinople, 20 September 1894 ), and had one child.
1872 and Challenger
The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.
* The HMS Challenger expedition ( December 1872 – May 1876 ) first sounded the depths now known as the Challenger Deep.
The trench was first sounded during the Challenger expedition ( December 1872 – May 1876 ), which recorded a depth of 4, 475 fathoms, 8, 184 m ( 26, 850 feet ).
Challenger was named after HMS Challenger, a British corvette that was the command ship for the Challenger Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876.
Under that sponsorship the Scots Charles Wyville Thompson and Sir John Murray launched the Challenger expedition ( 1872 – 1876 ).
The Challenger expedition of 1872 – 76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.
Prompted by the Scot, Charles Wyville Thomson — of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School — the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific work, equipping her with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry.
* Centenary of the Challenger Expedition, 1872 – 1876, John B. Tait, Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 88, Issue 3, 1972
The ridge was discovered during the expedition of HMS Challenger in 1872.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876.
* The fifth Challenger was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold in 1921.
The species was first collected by the Challenger expedition of 1872 – 1876, but only described as separate from related species by Heinrich Balss in 1914.
A. M. Norman, a member of the Challenger Committee, recommended that Stebbing produce a monograph on the amphipods collected on the 1872 – 1876 expedition by HMS Challenger, which he did, reproducing the original description for every genus, and providing an extensive bibliography of the group.
1872 and expedition
In 1872, Col. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, traveled to England, visiting the Epsom Derby, a famous race that had been running annually since 1780.
In 1872, Hayden oversaw explorations in Yellowstone, while a branch of his expedition known as the Snake River Division was led by James Stevenson and explored the Teton region.
William Bell ( photographer ) | William Bell's photograph of the Grand Canyon, taken in 1872 as part of the Wheeler Survey | Wheeler expedition
The first major scientific expedition to the area was led by U. S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872.
The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition was an expedition that ran from 1872 – 74 and discovered Franz-Josef Land.
The expedition, led by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872.
The first leg of the expedition took the ship from Portsmouth ( December 1872 ) south to Lisbon ( January 1873 ) and then on to Gibraltar.
In 1872, Henry H. Townsend established The Miltonia Mills, which manufactured fine wool blankets used by Admiral Robert E. Peary on his expedition to the North Pole, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd at the Antarctic.
Giles didn't attempt a regular exploring expedition until 1872, when with two other men he left Chambers pillar, South Australia ( now in the Northern Territory ), around the middle of August and traversed much previously untrodden country to the north-west and west.
In 1872, a group of settlers from Panguitch investigated the area, meeting members of the John Wesley Powell expedition.
The oldest son, Frank Andrew, accompanied Fleming in his great Western expedition of 1872.
In 1872, as an engineer, he went on a voyage to New Guinea but the Maria was wrecked, and in 1875 he again sailed as an engineer on William John Macleay's expedition to the Gulf of Papua.
In 1872, when he was 15, Baden-Powell accompanied his brothers on a cross-country expedition by collapsible canoe.
* In the expeditions of 1872 and 1875, he headed a well-organized expedition in the iron steamer Sofia, and reached the highest northern latitude (+ 81 ° 42 min ) then attained in the eastern hemisphere.
During their 7 year long South America expedition ( 1868 to 1876 ) the two German volcanologists Alphons Stübel and Wilhelm Reiss climbed Cotopaxi ( Reiss with Angel Escobar ; 28 November 1872 ) and Tungurahua ( Stübel with Eusebio Rodruguez ; 9 February 1873 ).
From 1872 to 1874, Kuropatkin studied at the Nicholas General Staff Academy, after which he was dispatched as a military attaché to Berlin and Paris, completing his military studies, and with the French troops in Algiers, accompanying French expedition to Sahara.
Another expedition in 1872 was devoted to a survey of the coastline.
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