Also in 1872, a protracted quarrel began to fester between Bismarck and Count Harry von Arnim, a career diplomat and the imperial ambassador to France.

In the village of Hajduki Wielkie, just south of Chorzów and Królewska Huta, Bismarck Iron Works ( Bismarckhütte ), were opened in 1872, later called Bathory Iron Works ( Huta Batory ).

A few years later, in 1872, a branch of the Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad ( known as the " Pumpkin Vine Railroad ") was built from Bismarck, Illinois, southeast through Warren County ; it was built specifically to carry coal from the mines south of Covington.

The Kulturkampf launched by Bismarck in 1872 affected Prussia ; although there were similar movements in Baden and Hesse the rest of Germany was not affected.

In 1872 Bismarck proposed appointing Chlodwig's younger brother Cardinal Gustav Adolf Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, ( Rotenburg, Germany, 26 March 1823-Rome, Italy, 30 October 1896 ), as Prussian envoy to the Holy See, but Pope Pius IX refused to receive him in this capacity.

* A. Meyendorff, " Conversations of Gorkachov with Andrassy and Bismarck in 1872 ," The Slavonic and East European Review 8, no.

The Mandan resettled, and in the 1870s the area along the west banks of the Missouri, the same location where the Mandan tribe had established their village, a military post was built in June 1872 by two companies of the 6th U. S. Infantry under Lt. Col. Daniel Huston, Jr. as Fort McKeen, opposite Bismarck, Dakota Territory.

Active in Republican politics, he was the Platform Committee chairman at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he offered Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name for renomination at the 1872 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and gave the nominating speech for Oliver H. P. Morton for President at the 1876 Republican National Convention in Cincinnati.

* Ralph Gurley ( 1797 – 1872 ), clergyman, chaplain of the US House of Representatives, and an influential figure in the American Colonization Society, which offered passage to their colony in west Africa ( now Liberia ) to free black Americans.

L. W. Lee plotted a town on his land in 1872, naming it Valley View, presumably for the view offered at the site of Spring Creek valley.

Because of the universal respect in which Bigelow was held in New York, he was offered nominations by both political parties for state office in 1872.

Florida Street, whose northern half is in the Retiro ward, became a shopping street in 1872, and would soon welcome pharmacies, furniture retailers, jewelers, and haberdasheries that offered the latest in European fashion.

The Salt Lake Railway Company offered mule and horse-drawn trolley rides in the Avenues by 1872, and the trolleys became electric in 1889.

Ralph Randolph Gurley ( May 26, 1797 – July 30, 1872 ) was a clergyman, an advocate of the separation of the races and a major force in the American Colonization Society, which offered passage to their colony in west Africa ( now Liberia ), to free black Americans.

However, in October 1872, he was unanimously offered to fill Daniel Coit Gilman's vacated post at Yale's recently established Sheffield Scientific School led by the mineralogist George Jarvis Brush.

Further, the rise of popular mail order catalogues ( e. g. Montgomery Ward began in 1872 ) offered another way for people in rural or other remote areas to obtain items not readily available in local stores.

After successfully repulsing Zuo's initial assault in 1872, inflicting heavy losses on Zuo's army, he offered to surrender his stronghold to the empire, and his assistance to the Qing for the duration of the war.

Marsh wrote to Mudge in 1872 and offered to identify any important fossils free of charge, and to give Mudge sole credit for their discovery.

His career was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and his passion for his military career had almost convinced him to give up the stage, until he was offered the opportunity to play the part of Oreste in Racine's Andromaque at the Comédie Française in 1872.

Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of van Gogh's thoughts and theories of art, is recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged between 1872 and 1890: more than 600 from Vincent to Theo and 40 from Theo to Vincent.

Initially, Alphonse had an influential supporter for his position through his long friendship with statesman Léon Say, a former employee of the Rothschild's Northern Railway Company who became the Minister of Finance in 1872.

The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition was an expedition that ran from 1872 – 74 and discovered Franz-Josef Land.

Fučík was born in Prague on 18 July 1872 when Prague was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Austro-Hungarian ships and naval personnel were also involved in Arctic exploration, discovering Franz Josef Land during an expedition which lasted from 1872 to 1874.

Ottokar ( Theobald Otto Maria ) Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz () ( 26 September 1872 – 4 April 1932 ), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician during the time of World War I, notably serving as Foreign Minister from 1916 to 1918.

After the Unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the Polish language was removed from schools in 1872, as part of Otto von Bismarck's Culture War.

In Le docteur Pascal ( set in 1872 ), Zola tells us that Eugène becomes a deputy in the legislative assembly and remains a staunch defender of the Emperor and the Empire after the Franco-Prussian War.

Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny ( January 11, 1808 – January 12, 1872 ) was a French statesman of the Second French Empire.

After serious disturbances he was elected member for Ajaccio on 11 February 1872, his election being characterized by the prefect of Corsica as a regular conspiracy in favour of the Empire.

When the Second Empire was swept away by the German War of 1870-1871, the people, in disgust at the Bonapartists and its fear of the Republicans, chose a great many royalists to represent it in the Assembly which met in Bordeaux on 12 February 1872.

Heinrich Graf von Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe ( 22 May 1872 – 25 July 1928 ) was an Austrian landowner who until 1919 held hereditary titles from two different countries: he was a Count ( Graf ) in the Holy Roman Empire and a viscount in the Peerage of Ireland.

Other works include ; Historical and Critical Account of the Several Invasions of England ( 1852 ), History of the Ottoman Turks, The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution, and Imperial and Colonial Institutions of the British Empire ( 1872 ).

After the fall of the French Second Empire in 1870, the Paris Commune created a provisional commission to replace the Conseil ( March 1870 to August 1872 ), and the archives, library and works of art were removed to Versailles.

MacVeagh was U. S. Ambassador to The Ottoman Empire in 1870 through 1871, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872 and 1873.

He was born in a large family on February 4, 1872 ( January 23 according to the Julian calendar ) in Kukush, then in the Ottoman Empire ( today in Greece ), which was populated predominantly with Macedonian Bulgarians of the Orthodox and the Uniate faith.

Federation stamps were superseded on 1 January 1872 by the first issues of the German Empire.

Avram Iancu (; 1824 – September 10, 1872 ) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848 – 1849.

The marquis de Noailles served as envoy to the United States in 1872, and was ambassador to Italy in 1873, and to the Ottoman Empire from 1882 until 1886.

The slave trade continued under the Dutch until 1814 ; in 1872 the Dutch Gold Coast, including the fort, became a possession of the British Empire.

In addition to his purely political writings, Arthur Ranc published political novels of the Second Empire, Sous l ' empire ( 1872 ) and Le roman d ' une conspiration ( 1868 ).

His score of books, several of which were translated into French and published in Paris, include French Pictures in English Chalk ( 1876 – 1878 ); The Roning Englishman in Turkey ( 1854 ); Men of the Second Empire ( 1872 ); Young Brown ( 1874 ); Sidelights on English Society ( 1881 ); Under the Lens: Social Photographs ( 1885 ); and Imprisoned in a Spanish Convent: An English Girl's Experiences ( 1886 ).

In 1872 he was transferred to Berlin, where he wrote Berlin under the New Empire ( 1879 ).

Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill GCB GCMG PC ( 20 February 1829 – 25 August 1884 ), known as Lord Odo Russell between 1872 and 1881, was a British diplomat and ambassador and the first British ambassador to the German Empire.

He returned to England in 1870 and in 1872 was placed upon the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the British Empire.

At the University of Zurich, Huber studied jurisprudence, where he received a doctorate in 1872 with a thesis on " The Swiss law of inheritance in its development since the separation of the Old Swiss Confederacy from the Holy Roman Empire.

The five-storey Montreal City Hall ( French: Hôtel de Ville de Montréal ) is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and was built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style.