Information about 1772

Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
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Years:	885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891

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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.

Undated

The world's first vineyard classification system (appellation control) was brought to completion by the Hungarians in Tokaj-Hegyalja, Hungary.
Sister Elisabeth Oesterlein, a Moravian living in Salem, North Carolina, begins a day school for girls which evolves into the Salem Academy and later becomes Salem College.

Births

**1772 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1772 MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2525
Armenian calendar	1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Bah' calendar	-72 – -71
Buddhist calendar	2316
Chinese calendar	4408/4468-7-24 (辛卯年七月廿四日) — to — 4409/4469-7-3 (壬辰年七月初三日)
Coptic calendar	1488 – 1489
Ethiopian calendar	1764 – 1765
Hebrew calendar	5532 – 5533
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1827 – 1828
- Shaka Samvat	1694 – 1695
- Kali Yuga	4873 – 4874
Holocene calendar	11772
Iranian calendar	1150 – 1151
Islamic calendar	1186 – 1187
Japanese calendar	An'ei 0 (安永0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2432 (皇紀2432年)
Julian calendar	1817
Korean calendar	4105
Thai solar calendar	2315
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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-CondÃ©, duc d'Enghien (d. 1804)
August 15 - Johann Nepomuk MÃ¤lzel, 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)

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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 GarÃ§Ã£o, 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)

Months and days of the year
January	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
February	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
March	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
April	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
June	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
August	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
October	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
December	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

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During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
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850–859: Christian "Martyr Movement" in Muslim CÃ³rdoba, Spain.

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Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')

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The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.

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885 — Vikings lay siege to Paris

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899 — Death of Alfred the Great

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Construction begins on the first church at the monastery of Cluny.

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-1770- 1771 1772 1773 1774 ^. 1775 ^. 1776 ^. 1777 ^. 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780

In science: 1767 1768 1769 -1770- 1771 1772 1773
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-1772- 1773 ^. 1774 ^. 1775 1776 ^. 1777 ^. 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780 ^. 1781 ^.
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June - Thomas Whately, politician and writer

June 18 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher

October 7 - John Woolman, abolitionist author

November 10 - Pedro Correia GarÃ§Ã£o, poet

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-1772- 1773 ^. 1774 ^. 1775 1776 ^. 1777 ^. 1778 ^. 1779 ^. 1780 ^. 1781 ^.
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Events

Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean.
HBC Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet country west of Eagle Hills.
The Hudson's Bay Company opens Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.
James Cook and George Vancouver explore the N.W.

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1772 in Great Britain:
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1770 | 1771 | 1772 | 1773 | 1774 Events from the year 1772 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Angola

AntÃ³nio de Lencastre, Governor of Angola (1772-1779)
Macau - Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha, Governor of Macau (1771-1777)

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