1772

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of states

Events

• February 17 - First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria
• May - Watauga Association formed in East Tennessee as the first independent Anglo-American government.
• August 5 - First Partition of Poland begins.
• 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.

• 1772 in literature
• 1772 in science
• 1772 in music

• March 10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829)
• April 7 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (+ 1837)
• April 19 - David Ricardo, British Economist (+ 1823)
• May 2 - Novalis, German poet (+ 1801)
• May 20 - William Congreve, British rocket pioneer.
• May 22 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer
• June 6 - Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, later wife of Emperor Francis II
• August 2 - Louis Antoine de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d'Enghien
• August 24 - Prince William VI of Orange, later King William I of the Netherlands
• October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, (+ 1834)
• November 23 - Duke Augustus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
• Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader

• February 8 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales.
• March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (born 1704)
• March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (born 1668)
• September 30 - James Brindley, British canal builder (born 1716)
• October 7 - John Woolman, American Quaker (born 1720)
• Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (born 1711)
• William Borlase, English antiquary (born 1695)
• Louis Claude Daquin, French composer (born 1694)
• Samuel Scott, English painter (born 1702)
• Georg Reutter, Austrian composer (born 1708)

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (1715-1774)
• Holy See - Clement XIV pope (1769-1774)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (1740-1786)
• Spain - Charles III King of Spain (1759-1788)
• Sweden - Gustav III King of Sweden (1771-1792)