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.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

The second president from Ohio, Grant was elected the 18th President of the United States in 1868, and was re-elected to the office in 1872 ; he served as President from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877.

In 1872 they founded the " Free Republic of Rehoboth " and adopted a constitution stating that the nation should be led by a " Kaptein " directly elected by the people, and that there should be a small parliament, or Volkraad, consisting of three directly-elected citizens.

Victoria Woodhull, in 1871, called for men to open the U. S. government to women or a new constitution and government would be formed in a year ; and, on a basis of equality, she ran to be elected President in 1872.

in 1872, he was elected Vice President as running mate with President Ulysses S. Grant, and served from 4 March 1873 until his death on 22 November 1875.

In his third attempt, Hendricks was elected Governor of Indiana in 1872, defeating Thomas M. Browne, 189, 424 to 188, 276 and thus winning by only 1, 148 votes.

Krack was elected Illinois General Assembly in 1872 and became treasurer of Livingston County in 1878.

Lamar, who was elected to Mississippi Congress in 1872 and has one county each in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia named after him.

Due to the Thomas and Ruckle Road going through Union, it elected the county seat in 1872, but when the railroad was built it was put through La Grande instead of Union.

In 1872, he was elected Register of Wills for Luzerne County, and in 1874, became the first clerk of the Orphans ' Court.

Thomas was elected Mayor of Austin in 1872 and served until 1877.

He was elected a fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge in 1872.

John Platt was elected in 1865 to become Member of Parliament for Oldham, and was re-elected in 1868 ; he remained in office until his death in 1872.

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.

Resigning his post on the 5 February 1871, he was in January 1872 elected to the National Assembly, and in 1876 to the Senate.

He became classical lecturer at Trinity College, and in 1869 was elected to the newly-founded chair of Latin at Cambridge, but resigned it in 1872.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on July 12, 1872 and died in office on December 23, 1878.

He was elected to the Federal Council on 30 July 1861 and handed over office on 28 May 1872.

In 1872, Frey was elected to the Swiss National Council, council he presided in 1875 / 1876.

He was elected to the city council in 1864, to the Grand Council of the canton of Neuchâtel and in 1865 he became a member of the State Council ( Staatsrat ) where he headed the military department from 1865 to 1870 and the department of justice from 1870 to 1872.

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 7, 1872 with 37 years.

Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, he was elected to cantonal government of Neuchâtel in 1871 and to the Swiss Council of States in 1872.

He moved to Minneapolis in 1872 and was elected to the city council eleven years later and then to the Minnesota Senate.

Having been historically governed by its clerical chapter alone, since 1872 the cathedral has been operationally overseen by a board comprising nine clerical members ( the dean, precentor, two clerical vicars and five other clerics ) and nine lay members, elected every third annual Easter vestry.

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1872.