1772 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1772?
- January 1, 1772 – The first traveler’s cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England, Great Britain.
- June 9, 1772 – The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
- August 5, 1772 – The First Partition of Poland begins.
- August 19, 1772 – Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
- August 21, 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
- September 1, 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- November 2, 1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
Who Were Born In The Year 1772?
- January 12, 1772 – Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
- February 6, 1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
- March 10, 1772 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829)
- April 4, 1772 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
- April 7, 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
- April 15, 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
- April 19, 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
- May 2, 1772 – Novalis, German writer (d. 1801)
- May 4, 1772 – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
- May 20, 1772 – Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
- May 22, 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
- June 6, 1772 – Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1807)
- August 24, 1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
- September 5, 1772 – Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar, Qajar king of Iran (d. 1834)
- September 27, 1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
- October 21, 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
- October 25, 1772 – Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
- November 18, 1772 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806)
- November 28, 1772 – Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
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