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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).

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Events of 1772

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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

★ 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)
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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. 1668)

★ 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)
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