1672

	1672 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1669 1670 1671 – 1672 – 1673 1674 1675

Year 1672 (MDCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1672

March – The Synod of Jerusalem brings together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.
March 12 – England declares war on the Dutch Republic.
March 15 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
April 8 France declares war on the Dutch Republic.
May 2 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
June 1 – Münster and Cologne begin their invasion of the United Provinces. 1672 becomes known as het rampjaar (the disaster year) in the Netherlands.
June 7 – Battle of Solebay, a sea battle between Holland and Great Britain.
June 12 – French forces under king Louis XIV cross the Rhine into the Netherlands. Utrecht (city) is occupied by the French army.

July 4 – William III of Orange is appointed Stadtholder of Holland, and in Zeeland on the 16th.
August 20 – Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
September – Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Great Elector assemble at Halberstadt to attack the French and the bishops of Munster and Cologne in their back. Bernard von Galen withdraws from Groningen (city) slowly to the South.
October – Spain begins construction on the masonry fort that will become Castillo de San Marcos, to protect St. Augustine, Florida.

January 4 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
January 15 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
February 13 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
February 26 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
May 1 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
June 9 – Emperor Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
September 8 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
October 11 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
October 21 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1750)

January 15 – John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
February 19 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
March – Archibald Armstrong, court jester to James I of England and Charles I of England (year of birth unknown)
April 22 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
April 26 – Lionel Lockyer, english alcamist and quack doctor (b. 1600)
May 5 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
May 8 – Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
May 11 – Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
May 28 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
June 27 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (b. 1597)
July 3 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
August 20 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
August 20 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
September 12 – Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial writer (b. c. 1612)
October 24 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
November 19 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
December 6 – King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
December 7 – Richard Bellingham, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
date unknown – Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (b. 1603)