1772
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| Gregorian calendar | 1772 MDCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2525 |
| Armenian calendar | 1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6522 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -72–-71 |
| Bengali calendar | 1179 |
| Berber calendar | 2722 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2316 |
| Burmese calendar | 1134 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7280–7281 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十一月廿七日 (4408/4468-11-27) — to — 壬辰年十二月初八日(4409/4469-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 1488–1489 |
| 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 | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 772–773 |
| Iranian calendar | 1150–1151 |
| Islamic calendar | 1185–1186 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiwa 9 An'ei 1 (安永元年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4105 |
| Minguo calendar | 140 before ROC 民前140年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 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–June
- January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.
- February 12 – The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.
- 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 – The 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 – The First Partition of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth begins.
- August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris avalanche killing several thousands.
- August 21 – The coup d'état 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 is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- November 2 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
Births
- March 10 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829)
- March 15 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843)
- 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-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (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)
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. 1688)
- 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)
- December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (b. 1695)
- date unknown – Madhavrao Peshwa, ruler of India (b. 1745)
