Timeline July 1872

Events in July 1872 6

• 1806 – 1872 Benito Juárez (1806-1872) Died 18 July 1872, aged 66 Benito Juárez was President of Mexico who led resistance to French intervention and the execution of Emperor Maximilian, restoring the Mexican republic. He remains a central figure in Mexican national identity for his defense of liberal reform and sovereignty.
• 1872 – 1933 Calvin Coolidge 30th President — Silent Cal, the Roaring Twenties Calvin Coolidge (Jul 4, 1872 – Jan 5, 1933) was the 30th President 1923-1929. He presided over the prosperous Roaring Twenties with a laissez-faire economic policy. Known for his extreme taciturnity — "Silent Cal".
• 1872 Germany bans the Jesuit order Reichstag passes law expelling Jesuits as part of the Kulturkampf The German Reichstag passed the Jesuit Law, banning the Society of Jesus from the German Empire and authorizing the expulsion of its members. The law was part of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's wider campaign against Catholic Church influence known as the Kulturkampf.
• 1872 – 1928 Roald Amundsen South Pole Conqueror Led the first expedition to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
• 1872 Ballot Act introduces secret voting in Britain Parliament mandates the secret ballot for elections The Ballot Act 1872 received royal assent, requiring parliamentary and local elections in the United Kingdom to be conducted by secret ballot. It aimed to reduce bribery and intimidation of voters that had been common under open voting.
• 1872 Marriage, and the loss of legal standing Pforzheim, 20 July Bertha Ringer marries Carl Benz. Under the law of the day she immediately ceases to be an investor in the business she funded, and her money becomes his. She goes on financing him for the next fifteen years with no legal claim to any of it, and no formal role in the company that eventually bears his name.