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

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1772 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1772 MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2525
Armenian calendar	1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6522
Bengali calendar	1179
Berber calendar	2722
British Regnal year	12 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2316
Burmese calendar	1134
Byzantine calendar	7280–7281
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4468 or 4408 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4469 or 4409
Coptic calendar	1488–1489
Discordian calendar	2938
Ethiopian calendar	1764–1765
Hebrew calendar	5532–5533
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1828–1829
- Shaka Samvat	1694–1695
- Kali Yuga	4873–4874
Holocene calendar	11772
Igbo calendar	772–773
Iranian calendar	1150–1151
Islamic calendar	1185–1186
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 9 / An'ei 1 (安永元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4105
Minguo calendar	140 before ROC 民前140年
Thai solar calendar	2314–2315

Year 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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 Ocean.
- The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.^[1]
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 – 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 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.^[2]

January 30 – Godfrey Higgins, British archaeologist (d. 1833)
March 10 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829)
March 15 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843)
April 5 – Domenico Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1815)
April 7 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
April 18 – 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)
July 11 – John Rodgers, American naval officer (d. 1838)
August 2 – Louis Antoine, Duke of 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 – Géraud 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)

February 8 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
February 18 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst 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)
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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 physician (b. 1700)
- Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
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)
October 16 – Ahmad Shah Durrani, Afghan founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724)
November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
November 18 – Madhavrao I, ruler of India (b. 1745)
November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (b. 1695)