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.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

Early illustration of Ornithochirus umbrosus ( now Pteranodon ), when teeth erroneously were attributed to the species and the crest was unknown, 1872

The Cape Colony, in Southern Africa, was under responsible self-government from 1872 until 1910 when it became the Cape Province of the new Union of South Africa.

This changed in 1872 when the local politician John Molteno-with the backing of Governor Henry Barkly-instituted responsible government, making the Ministers directly responsible to the Cape Parliament, and becoming the Cape's first Prime Minister.

Henry Draper took the first photograph of a star's spectrum in August 1872 when he took an image of Vega, and he also became the first person to show absorption lines in the spectrum of a star.

and Fred: a sizeable amount in 1872 when £ 100 was perhaps the equivalent of £ 3, 000-plus at the end of the 20th century.

The scandal broke in 1872 when the New York Sun published correspondence between Henry S. McComb and Ames detailing the scheme.

While he was mainly ignored by the intellectual world when he published his writings, Giuseppe Peano ( 1858 – 1932 ) and Bertrand Russell ( 1872 – 1970 ) introduced his work to later generations of logicians and philosophers.

Judge Samuel F. Miller, who would later sit in the Santa Clara Railroad case ( see below ), had considered the purpose of the Amendment in 1872, only six years after the Amendment had become law, when the court was " called upon for the first time to give construction to these articles.

The cataloguing project began in 1872 when Benjamin Peirce first published his Linear Associative Algebra, and was carried forward by his son Charles Sanders Peirce.

All but 500 top Confederate leaders were pardoned when President Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872.

Clark, as a child attended a Baptist Sabbatical School until 1872 when the chapel was dissolved on a motion put by Clark due to the " lack of discipline and proper order of government in worship.

Captain Jack led his band back to California, and the Modoc War of 1872 broke out when the US Army tried to take them by force to return them to Oregon.

In 1883 the " Darby News " was formed in Milford Center and eventually became the " Milford Echo " before folding, the " Milford Ohioan " was formed in 1887, the " Richwood Gazette " in 1872, the " Richwood Reporter " in 1882, which ceased operations two years later when destroyed by fire, and the " Octograph Review ".

Sheridan County was formed by the 1872 – 1873 territorial legislature but was attached to McLean County for judicial purposes until the 1908 general election, when voters decided to split Sheridan from McLean County entirely.

By 1872, when the gold rush in Elizabethtown had died down, the county seat was moved to Cimarron.

The university claims roots as far back as 1581, when a Jesuit college opened in Cluj, but it was in 1872 that emperor Franz Joseph founded the University of Cluj, later renamed the Franz Joseph University ( József Ferenc Tudományegyetem ).

The town was incorporated when the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad arrived in 1872.

It had previously been the seat of Clarke County until 1872 when the county seat of that county was moved to Athens, a move which ultimately led to the creation of Oconee County in 1875.

It then became the seat for Clarke County and remained so until 1872, when Athens took over that role.

Stewart Cummings was the first postmaster in 1851 and when the village was incorporated in 1872, John S. Cummings, a Civil War veteran became the first mayor.

The Murray Independent School system has been a part of the Murray community since 1872 when the first school was built in the middle of town.

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.