1772

June 9: American protesters burn British ship HMS Gaspee.
1772 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1772
MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita2525
Armenian calendar1221
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar6522
Balinese saka calendar1693–1694
Bengali calendar1178–1179
Berber calendar2722
British Regnal year12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2316
Burmese calendar1134
Byzantine calendar7280–7281
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4469 or 4262
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4470 or 4263
Coptic calendar1488–1489
Discordian calendar2938
Ethiopian calendar1764–1765
Hebrew calendar5532–5533
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1828–1829
 - Shaka Samvat1693–1694
 - Kali Yuga4872–4873
Holocene calendar11772
Igbo calendar772–773
Iranian calendar1150–1151
Islamic calendar1185–1186
Japanese calendarMeiwa 9 / An'ei 1
(安永元年)
Javanese calendar1697–1698
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4105
Minguo calendar140 before ROC
民前140年
Nanakshahi calendar304
Thai solar calendar2314–2315
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Iron-Hare)
1898 or 1517 or 745
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Water-Dragon)
1899 or 1518 or 746
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August 5: First Partition of Poland

1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1772nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 772nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1772, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

  • January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India

, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee.[1]

  • January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.
  • February 12
    • Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean.
    • The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.[2]
  • February 17 – The First Partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria.
  • March 8 – Biela's Comet is first discovered by French astronomer Jacques Leibax Montaigne, but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when Wilhelm von Biela correctly identifies its return.[3]
  • March 20 – Pedro Fages, the Spanish Governor of Alta California, and Juan Crespí, a Catholic priest, set off from the capital at Monterey with a party of 12 soldiers and begin the first European exploration of the lands around San Francisco Bay.[4]

April–June

  • April 8 – Massachusetts legislator Samuel Adams persuades his colleagues to approve his plan for creating a Committee of Correspondence to begin a dialogue with the other American colonies concerning mutual problems with England.[5][6]
  • April 13 – Warren Hastings begins his service for the British East India Company as Governor of Bengal, arriving at the company's headquarters at Fort William, outside of Calcutta, and including what are now parts of northeast India and Bangladesh.[7] Hastings serves for two years, then later becomes Governor-General of India.
  • May 8 – The Watauga Association Compact is signed in what is now East Tennessee by a group of white settlers led by William Bean, creating the first non-colonial government body in British North America.[8]
  • June 9 – Gaspee Affair: In an act of defiance against the British Navigation Acts, American patriots, led by Abraham Whipple, attack and burn the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee off of Rhode Island.
  • June 10 – The crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks to fail, extends to Scotland, Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy.
  • June 22 – Somersett's Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivers the decision that leads to the end of slavery in England.[9]
  • June 23–28 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): First of two Russian occupations of Beirut, following a naval bombardment which began on June 18.[10]

July–September

October–December

  • October 28 – Basque-Spanish explorer Domingo de Bonechea, in the Aguila, sights Tauere atoll, which he names San Simon y Judas.[13]
  • November 2 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
  • December 14
    • Russian government offices reopen at Moscow and Saint Petersburg after being closed for 15 months because of an epidemic of bubonic plague.[14]
    • Second voyage of James Cook: The crew of HMS Resolution finds that the ice floes encountered on their journey south are a source of fresh water, a "discovery... of utmost importance to the success of the voyage."[15]

Date unknown

  • Scottish scientist Daniel Rutherford discovers nitrogen gas, isolating it from air.[16]
  • Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, demands that all bodies remain unburied for three days to ensure that death has actually taken place.[17]

Births

William I of the Netherlands
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deaths

  • February 4 – Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1715)
  • February 8 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
  • February 11 – Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo, Venetian aristocrat and salon holder (b. 1715)
  • February 15 – Mitromaras, Greek rebel and pirate[19]
  • February 18 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
  • February 20 – Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein (b. 1694)
  • 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 27 – Taylor White, British judge (b. 1701)
Emanuel Swedenborg
  • March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
  • April 28 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician and de facto regent, executed (b. 1737)
  • 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
    • Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian physician (b. 1700)
    • Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge, philosopher (b. 1706)
  • June 22 – François-Vincent Toussaint, French writer most famous for Les Mœurs (The Manners) (b. 1715)
  • August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
  • September 30 – James Brindley, English canal builder (b. 1716)
  • October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher, abolitionist (b. 1720)
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

References

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  2. ^ Hening, William Walter. "Hening's Statutes at Large". Retrieved April 9, 2011.
  3. ^ Chambers, George Frederick (1877). A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy. Clarendon Press. p. 299.
  4. ^ Mathes, W. Michael (1985). "The Camino Real: California's Mission Trail". Pioneer Trails West. Caxton Press. p. 82.
  5. ^ "The Revenue Administration of Bengal, 1765-86", by R. B. Ramsbotham, in The Cambridge History of the British Empire, H. H. Dodwell, ed. (Cambridge University Press Archive, 1929) p. 413
  6. ^ Samuel Fallows, Samuel Adams: A Character Sketch, with Anecdotes, Characteristics and Chronology (The University Association, 1898) p. 110
  7. ^ Jaswant Lal Mehta, Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 (Sterling Publishers, 2005) p. 510
  8. ^ Lewis L. Laska, The Tennessee State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990) p. 1
  9. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 327. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  10. ^ Persen, William (1955). "The Russian occupations of Beirut, 1772–74". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 42 (3–4): 275–286. doi:10.1080/03068375508731555.
  11. ^ Price, A. Grenfell, ed. (1971). The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779. Courier Corporation. p. 107.
  12. ^ "Papandayan". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  13. ^ Mellén Blanco, Francisco (1992). "Un diario inédito sobre la presencia española en Tahití (1774-1775)". Revista Española del Pacífico (in Spanish) (2): 109–182. Retrieved May 24, 2019 – via Cervantes Virtual.
  14. ^ John T. Alexander, Catherine the Great: Life and Legend (Oxford University Press, 1989) p159
  15. ^ "Anders Sparrman, 1748—1820", in Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond, ed. by Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock (University of Washington Press, 2002) p230
  16. ^ Roza, Greg (2009). The Nitrogen Elements: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-4358-5335-5.
  17. ^ Rabbi Moshe Taub (January 24, 2018). "The Shul Chronicles". Ami Magazine. No. 352. pp. 106–107.
  18. ^ "Charles Fourier | French philosopher". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  19. ^ Kargakos, Sarantos I. (1999). Αλβανοί, Αρβανίτες, Ελληνες (in Greek). Athens: I. Sideris. p. 170. ISBN 9789600801729.
  20. ^ Pardo de Guevara y Valdés, Eduardo (October 23, 2002). "Fr. Martín Sarmiento (1695-1772)" (PDF). DSpace Home (in Spanish). Universidade da Coruña: 99. Retrieved May 24, 2019.

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