1772
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Template:C18YearInTopicX 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
| Gregorian calendar | 1772 MDCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2525 |
| Armenian calendar | 1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6522 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1693–1694 |
| Bengali calendar | 1179 |
| Berber calendar | 2722 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2316 |
| Burmese calendar | 1134 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7280–7281 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4469 or 4262 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4470 or 4263 |
| Coptic calendar | 1488–1489 |
| Discordian calendar | 2938 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1764–1765 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5532–5533 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1828–1829 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1693–1694 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4872–4873 |
| Holocene calendar | 11772 |
| Igbo calendar | 772–773 |
| Iranian calendar | 1150–1151 |
| Islamic calendar | 1185–1186 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiwa 9 / An'ei 1 (安永元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1697–1698 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4105 |
| Minguo calendar | 140 before ROC 民前140年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 304 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2314–2315 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1898 or 1517 or 745 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1899 or 1518 or 746 |
- 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)
- See also Category: 1772 births.
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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