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1772 March 2011 1772 thumb|250px|June 9: American protesters burn British ship HMS Gaspee. thumb|August 5: First Partition of Poland 1772 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.From Miniatures to Monuments: Picturing Shah Alam's Delhi (1771-1806) Yuthika Sharma Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition Patel, Alka Leonard, Karen Brill Leiden 2012 111 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.Menzies Gavin 1421: The Year China Discovered America William Morrow and Co. 2003 978-0061564895 149 The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol08-25.htm Hening's Statutes at Large William Walter Hening 2011-04-09 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.George Frederick Chambers A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy https://archive.org/details/handbookofdescri00chamrich Clarendon Press 1877 299 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.The Camino Real: California's Mission Trail W. Michael Mathes Pioneer Trails West Caxton Press 1985 82 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."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. 413Samuel Fallows, Samuel Adams: A Character Sketch, with Anecdotes, Characteristics and Chronology (The University Association, 1898) p. 110 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.Jaswant Lal Mehta, Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 (Sterling Publishers, 2005) p. 510 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.Lewis L. Laska, The Tennessee State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990) p. 1 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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/327 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 327 June 23–28 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): First of two Russian occupations of Beirut, following a naval bombardment which began on June 18.The Russian occupations of Beirut, 1772–74 Persen William Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 1955 42 3–4 275–286 10.1080/03068375508731555 July–September July 13 – The second voyage of James Cook departs from Plymouth on Captain Cook's new ship, HMS Resolution and the companion ship HMS Adventure in an attempt to prove the existence of an uncharted continent even further south than New Zealand.Price, A. Grenfell The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779 Courier Corporation 1971 107 August 5 – The first Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth begins. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria becomes part of the crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy. August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris avalanche killing several thousand.Papandayan Global Volcanism Program Smithsonian Institution 2010-09-09 http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0603-10= August 21 – A 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. October–December October 28 – Basque-Spanish explorer Domingo de Bonechea, in the Aguila, sights Tauere atoll, which he names San Simon y Judas.http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/descargaPdf/un-diario-inedito-sobre-la-presencia-espanola-en-tahiti-1774-1775/ Un diario inédito sobre la presencia española en Tahití (1774-1775) Francisco Mellén Blanco 109–182 24 May 2019 Cervantes Virtual es 1992 Revista Española del Pacífico 2 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.John T. Alexander, Catherine the Great: Life and Legend (Oxford University Press, 1989) p159 Second voyage of James Cook: The crew of Resolution 1771 6 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.""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 Date unknown Scottish scientist Daniel Rutherford discovers nitrogen gas, isolating it from air.Roza Greg The Nitrogen Elements: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth https://books.google.com/books?id=H8JCi0AVVpsC 2009 The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc 978-1-4358-5335-5 7–8 Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, demands that all bodies remain unburied for three days to ensure that death has actually taken place.Ami Magazine 352 January 24, 2018 The Shul Chronicles Rabbi Moshe Taub 106–107 Births January 20 – Angélique Brûlon, French soldier, first female Knight of the French Legion of Honour (d. 1859) January 30 – Godfrey Higgins, British archaeologist (d. 1833) February 24 – William H. Crawford, American politician, judge (d. 1834) March 10 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829) March 15 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843) April 4 – Nachman of Breslov, Hasidic rabbi and founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement (d. 1810) April 5 – Domenico Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1815) April 7 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)Charles Fourier French philosopher https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Fourier Encyclopedia Britannica 13 February 2021 en April 18 – David Ricardo, British economist (d. 1823) April 30 – Karl Gustav Himly, German surgeon, ophthalmologist (d. 1837) 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) June 7 – Aurora Liljenroth, Swedish scholar (d. 1836) 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) thumb|right|110px|William I of the Netherlands August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843) September 27 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, Acting First Lady of the United States (1801–1809) (d. 1836) October 6 – Anna Maria Rüttimann-Meyer von Schauensee, politically active Swiss salonist (d. 1856) thumb|right|110px|Samuel Taylor Coleridge October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher (d. 1834) October 25 – Géraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813) November 5 – Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, French admiral (d. 1849) November 8 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (d. 1834) November 18 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806) date unknown Thomas Noble, English poet and translator (d. 1837) Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (d. 1864) approximate date Charlotte Dacre, English Gothic novelist (d. 1825) Lalon, Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker (d. 1890) 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 pirateKargakos Sarantos I. 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Sideris Athens el 9789600801729 EpovAAAAMAAJ yes 170 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) thumb|right|110px|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) thumb|right|110px|Jean-Joseph de Mondonville October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist, composer (b. 1711) October 14 – Benjamin Green, Canadian merchant and judge (b. 1713) October 16 – Ahmad Shah Durrani, Afghan founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724) October 19 – Andrea Belli, Maltese architect, businessman (b. 1703) 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 4 – Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the Great Maggid, a preacher and founder of Hasidism. December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer, scholar (b. 1695)https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/2183/8985/CC82art4ocr.pdf?sequence=1 Fr. Martín Sarmiento (1695-1772) Eduardo Pardo de Guevara y Valdés 23 October 2002 24 May 2019 99 DSpace Home Universidade da Coruña es date unknown – Panna Cinka, Hungarian violinist (b. 1711) References Further reading Blair's Chronological Tables John Blair John Blair (priest) J. Willoughby Rosse London H.G. Bohn 1856 HathiTrust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=688 1772 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=688 External links Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar