To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

By 1872, he was living in Vienna and was employed by the Department of Justice as an officer and by Prince Rudolf's family as his tutor.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

Sasso was the main source of European borax from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced it.

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

From 1869 to 1872, he was employed as an Assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the brightness of stars and the shape of the Milky Way.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U. S. President to be born on Independence Day.

Cleveland was thus the NA's westernmost outpost in 1872, the year the club folded.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

In various revised editions ( 12 in all, through 1872 ), Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century, and did much to put geology on a modern footing.

In the US, the Doctor of Science, Sc. D., is an academic research degree that was first conferred in North America by Harvard University in 1872.

The boundary with Iran was firmly delineated in 1904, replacing the ambiguous line made by a British commission in 1872.

One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.

A return fixture was organised by representatives of Scottish football teams on 30 November 1872.

After his mother's death in 1872, he was sent, together with his younger brother, Conrad, back to Honfleur, to live with his paternal grandparents.

His training was completed in close contact with the Neapolitan school of Verism as a pupil of Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista at the Naples Academy from 1872 on.

He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue.

In 1872, Queensberry was chosen by the Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords as a representative peer.

** Three of his hymns were chosen and printed in The Church Hymn book 1872 ( n. 1064, 1356 and 1393 ).

The revolver was chosen by the Army in 1872, with the first order, for 8000 revolvers, shipping in the summer of 1873.

In 1869, Reverent Dower of the London Mission Society visited the place and agreed to establish a church if the people were to move once more ; after consultation with the populace, an area farther south of the mountain was chosen, and upon arrival in 1872, the town of Kokstad was founded, named in honour of their leader.

Talbot served many years in the Massachusetts legislature, sat in the governor's council from 1864 to 1869, and in 1872 was chosen lieutenant-governor, as a Republican.

In 1867 he became privatdozent in Berlin University, and in the following year was chosen professor of physics at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, where he was the teacher of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ; then, after a year or two at Würzburg, he was called in 1872 to Strasbourg, where he took a great part in the organization of the new university, and was largely concerned in the erection of the Physical Institute.

In 1872 he was chosen Moderator of the Assembly but used his speech to seriously criticise his brethren for not choosing him earlier.

He later was a delegate to the Union National Convention held in Philadelphia in 1868, and to the 1872 Democratic National Convention, where he was chosen as a member of the Democratic National Committee and served for four years until 1876.

Hubbard's postwar law practice, supplemented by income from real estate and railroad promotion, enabled him to resume his political career by 1872, when he was chosen presidential elector on the Horace Greeley ticket.

Munch, and by that time still unchallenged, this year was chosen for the millennial celebration of the unification of the Norwegian state in 1872.

The revolver was chosen by the Army in 1872, with the first order shipping in the summer of 1873 for 8000 revolvers.

He was distinguished as an ethnologist, and when nearly ninety years of age he was chosen president of the Congress of Pre-historic Archaeology ( Brussels, 1872 ).

In 1872 he was chosen professor of Egyptology at Strasbourg, where a new chair was created to compete with the famous chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France.

Several sources state that Llanelli formed in 1872, and the club officially celebrated its centenary in 1972 ; though more recent information suggests that the centenary year was chosen to coincide with the visit of the 1972 touring All Blacks.

The esoteric text Oera Linda, published in 1872, mentions it under the name Atland ( the name used by Olaus Rudbeck ).

After a wearisome journey from Isfahán to Akka she finally arrived accompanied by her brother in 1872.

Heine provided the first published definition of uniform continuity in 1872, but based these ideas on lectures given by Dirichlet in 1854.

New materials ( Vienna, 1872 ); by JJI von Döllinger ( Ungedruckte Berichte und Tagebücher zur Geschichte des Concilii von Trient ) ( 2 parts, Nördlingen, 1876 ); and A. von Druffel, Monumenta Tridentina ( Munich, 1884 – 97 ).

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

Funeral, illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Carmilla in The Dark Blue, January 1872

* 1872 – Challenger expedition:, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.

** Martín Fierro by José Hernández ( 1872 )

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

* A critical Greek and English concordance of the New Testament ( 1872 ) revised by Ezra Abbot

The opening verse as published by the Jubilee Singers in 1872:

In 1872 the first secondary school was built. On 3 December 1877 Grenada's old representative system of government was replaced by the pure Crown Colony model.

Dedekind, whom Cantor befriended in 1872, cited this paper later that year, in the paper where he first set out his celebrated definition of real numbers by Dedekind cuts.

The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.

The homilies appeared for the first time in a work called Haschacnapadum at Constantinople in 1737 ; a century afterwards a Greek translation was published at Venice by the Mekhiterists ; and they have since been edited in German by J M Schmid ( Ratisbon, 1872 ).