1772

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Year 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1772

January - June

• January 17 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.
• February 17 - First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria.
• May - Watauga Association formed in East Tennessee.
• June 9 - British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
• June 22 - Lord Mansfield delivers the decision that leads to the end of slavery in England.

July - December

• August 5 - First Partition of Poland begins.
• August 21 - The coup d'etat by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and making him an enlightened despot.
• September 1 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
• November 2 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

Births

• March 10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829)
• April 7 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
• April 19 - David Ricardo, British economist (d. 1823)
• May 2 - Novalis, German poet (d. 1801)
• May 20 - William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (d. 1828)
• May 22 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer (d. 1833)
• August 2 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (d. 1804)
• August 15 - Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, German inventor (d. 1838)
• August 24 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
• October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher, (d. 1834)
• October 25 - Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
• November 18 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
• date unknown - Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (d. 1864)

Deaths

• February 8 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
• February 18 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
• March 21 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
• March 22 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
• March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
• March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
• May 1 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
• May 22 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
• June 15 - Louis Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
• June 18 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
• June 18 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
• August 31 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
• September 30 - James Brindley, British canal builder (b. 1716)
• October 7 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
• October 8 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (b. 1711)
• November 10 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
• November 19 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
• date unknown - Madhavrao Peshwa, ruler of India (b. 1745)
• Ahmad Shah "Dorr-e Dorran", King of Kabul, King of Herat, King of Kandahar, King of Peshawar (b. 1724)