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Born in 1772:
English poet
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge
.
German poet
Novalis
(aka Georg Philipp Friedrich,
Freiherr
von Hardenberg).
Irish musical historian
Edward Bunting
.
Controversial
Harvard University
president
Josiah Quincy
.
French Utopian philosopher
Charles Fourier
.
English economist
David Ricardo
.
The future king of the
Netherlands
,
Willem I
.
Died in 1772:
Swedish
theologian
Emanuel Swedenborg
.
English physicist
John Canton
.
Quaker writer
John Woolman
.
French architect
Jean-Michel Chevotet
.
French composer
Louis-Claude Daquin
.
French composer
Jean Cassanea de Mondonville
.
Events of 1772:
Austria
,
Prussia
, and
Russia
each
take slices
of
Poland
. The loose political association of nobles known as the
Confederation of Bar
is
ineffectual
; the only country that Poland can appeal to is the
Ottoman Empire
, which is already fighting a war with Russia; the Russians roundly defeat them.
Joseph Priestley
invents
carbonated water
.
*sip*
Samuel Adams
publishes a leaflet titled
On the rights of the Colonists
essentially saying the Colonies have a right to break away from Great Britain.
The smuggling ship
Hannah
lures the British revenue cutter
Gaspee
aground in
Rhode Island
. the
Gaspee
is then boarded, its crew taken prisoner, and burned.
The
Royal Marriage Act
requires all descendants of King
George II
under the age of 25 to obtain the King's permission before marrying. Those descendants of George II over 25 are required to obtain
Parliament
's permission.
Captain
James Cook
leaves
Plymouth
on his second voyage, commanding the
Resolution
, and accompanied by the
Adventure
, captaned by
Tobias Furneaux
.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Adams
Harvard University
John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst
Royal Marriages Act 1772
Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
Anthony Fenn Kemp
Galicia
Jean Marie Pardessus
January 1
David Ricardo
J. B. Priestley
abbess
A Theologian in Death
PFE
Poland
Ottoman Empire
1900
Carbonated water
Hannah
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