Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years:
1769 1770 1771 – 1772 – 1773 1774 1775
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
1772 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1772
MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita
2525
Armenian calendar
1221
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Bahá'í calendar
-72 – -71
Berber calendar
2722
Buddhist calendar
2316
Burmese calendar
1134
Chinese calendar
4408/4468-11-27
(辛卯年十一月廿七日)
— to —
4409/4469-12-8
(壬辰年十二月初八日)
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
1185 – 1186
Japanese calendar
Meiwa 9An'ei 1
(安永元年)
Korean calendar
4105
Thai solar calendar
2315
- 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)
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