Today in History for Year 1772

Months in Year 1772: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 1st - First traveler's cheques go on sale in London, can be used in 90 European cities
Feb 12th - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
Feb 17th - 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
Mar 13th - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
Apr 30th - John Clais patents 1st scale
May 11th - Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
Jun 6th - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
Jun 9th - 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
Jun 9th - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
Jun 10th - Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
Jun 22nd - Slavery outlawed in England
Jul 13th - Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
Aug 5th - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
Aug 11th - Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
Aug 19th - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
Aug 21st - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
Aug 31st - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
Sep 1st - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
Sep 26th - New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
Captain/Explorer James Cook Oct 30th - Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
Nov 2nd - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
Dec 22nd - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

Jan 4th - Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French writer/interpreter
Jan 12th - Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
Feb 22nd - Joseph Lipavsky, composer
Feb 22nd - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
Feb 26th - Caspar Furstenau, composer
Mar 10th - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
Mar 27th - Giovanni Liverati, composer
Mar 30th - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
Apr 1st - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
Apr 4th - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
Apr 7th - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
Apr 11th - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
Apr 15th - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
Apr 19th - David Ricardo, economist
May 2nd - Novalis, writer
May 4th - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
May 11th - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer
May 20th - William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
May 22nd - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
Jun 6th - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
Jun 8th - Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
Jul 25th - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
Aug 11th - Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general
Aug 24th - William I Frederick, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and King of the Netherlands (1814-40)
Aug 30th - Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
Sep 18th - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
Sep 27th - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
Oct 4th - Francois-Louis Perne, composer
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oct 21st) Oct 21st - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (d. 1834)
Oct 25th - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
Nov 10th - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
Nov 18th - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
Nov 28th - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
Dec 7th - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 30 of 30

Feb 10th - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75
Feb 18th - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
Mar 2nd - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73
Mar 11th - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
Mar 21st - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
Mar 22nd - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
Mar 26th - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
Mar 29th - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
Apr 19th - Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66
Apr 28th - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
May 1st - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
May 11th - Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged
May 22nd - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
Jun 12th - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
Jun 15th - Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77
Jun 18th - Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72
Jun 18th - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
Aug 21st - Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
Aug 21st - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
Aug 31st - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
Sep 30th - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
Oct 7th - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
Oct 8th - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
Nov 5th - Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
Nov 5th - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
Nov 10th - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
Nov 11th - John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84
Nov 19th - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
Dec 12th - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
Dec 28th - Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82