1772

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years:	1769 1770 1771 – 1772 – 1773 1774 1775

1772 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1772
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1772

The banking crisis 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 – The first partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria.
May – The Watauga Association is formed in East Tennessee.
June 9 – The 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 – The First Partition of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth begins.
August 21 – The coup d'état 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 is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
November 2 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

Ongoing events

Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774.

Births

**1772 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1772 MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2525
Armenian calendar	1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-72 – -71
Bengali calendar	1179
Berber calendar	2722
Buddhist calendar	2316
Burmese calendar	1134
Byzantine calendar	7280 – 7281
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十一月廿七日 (4408/4468-11-27) — to — 壬辰年十二月初八日 (4409/4469-12-8)
Coptic calendar	1488 – 1489
Ethiopian calendar	1764 – 1765
Hebrew calendar	5532 – 5533
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1828 – 1829
- 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 (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)
December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (b. 1695)
date unknown – Madhavrao Peshwa, ruler of India (b. 1745)