* 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar ( d. 1733 )

* 1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet ( d. 1672 )

* 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

* Heinrich Schütz ( 1585 – 1672 ) composed " Fili mi, Absalon " as part of his Sinfoniae Sacrae, op. 6

* 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician ( d. 1672 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

* Antoine Augustin Calmet ( 1672 – 1757 )

Many Eastern Orthodox consider the Council of Constantinople of 879 – 880, that of Constantinople in 1341 – 1351 and that of Jerusalem in 1672 to be ecumenical:

The Church considers the first seven Ecumenical Councils ( held between the 4th and the 8th century ) to be the most important ; however, there have been more, specifically the Synods of Constantinople, 879 – 880, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1583, 1819, and 1872, the Synod of Iaşi ( Jassy ), 1642, and the Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672, all of which helped to define the Orthodox position.

* 1672 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College ( b. 1592 )

* 1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( d. 1757 )

* 1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist ( d. 1731 )

Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.

Telemann's brother Heinrich Matthias ( 1672 – 1746 ) eventually became a clergyman.

Peace was fragile, and war broke out again between France and the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ).

Image: Shunkeizu. jpg | Hanging scroll 1672, Kanō Tanyū, ( 1602 – 1674 ), Japanese

Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system.

* 1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg ( d. 1741 )

* 1672 – Francis Willughby, English biologist ( b. 1635 )

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* February 7 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera ( born 1672 )

André Cardinal Destouches ( sometimes called des Touches ) ( baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749 ) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens.

In his own college he completed in 1665 the north side of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's great quadrangle, already begun by his father but abandoned during the Commonwealth ; in 1672, he rebuilt the east side of the Chaplain's quadrangle " with a straight passage under it leading from the cloister into the field ," occupied now by the new Meadow Buildings ; the lodgings of the canon of the third stall in the passage uniting the Tom Quad and Peckwater Quadrangle ( c. 1674 ); a long building joining the Chaplain's quadrangle on the east side in 1677 – 1678 ; and lastly the great Tom Tower gate, begun in June 1681 on the foundation laid by Wolsey and finished in November 1682, to which the bell " great Tom ," after being recast, was transferred from the cathedral in 1683.

* John II Casimir of Poland ( 1609 – 1672 ), his only surviving brother, was a Cardinal of Roman Church when succeeded.

In the fine arts, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (" Academy of Painting and Sculpture ") was founded by Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and was soon followed by a number of other officially instituted academies: the Académie royale de danse (" Royal Academy of Dance ") in 1661 ; the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals ") in 1663 the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Literature " or " Royal Academy of Humanities ") in 1716 ; the Académie royale des sciences (" Royal Academy of Sciences ") in 1666 ; the Académie d ' Opéra (" Academy of Opera ") in 1669 the Académie royale de musique (" Royal Academy of Music ") in 1672 and the Académie de musique in 1791 ; and the Académie royale d ' architecture (" Royal Academy of Architecture ") founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1671.

* 1588 – Pierre Séguier, French statesman, Chancellor of France ( d. 1672 )

Despite his foreign origin, Lully established an Academy of Music and monopolised French opera from 1672.

The relatively rare attempts at forcing pitched battles ( Gustavus Adolphus in 1630 ; the French against the Dutch in 1672 or 1688 ) were almost always expensive failures.

* 1672 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer ( d. 1703 )

** Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer ( d. 1672 )

* November 30 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer ( b. 1672 )

* October 25 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( b. 1672 )

** Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French officer ( d. 1672 )

* August – François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer, French writer ( d. 1672 )

* January 6 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist ( b. 1672 )

* December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer ( b. 1672 )

* September 16 – Antoine V de Gramont, French military leader ( b. 1672 )

At the same time, Austria was becoming more involved in competition with France in Western Europe, with Austria fighting the French in the Third Dutch War ( 1672 – 1679 ), the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1688 – 1697 ) and finally the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), in which the French and Austrians ( along with their British, Dutch and Catalonian allies ) fought over the inheritance of the vast territories of the Spanish Habsburgs.

The Cassegrain antenna design was adapted from the Cassegrain telescope, a type of reflecting telescope developed around 1672 and attributed to French priest Laurent Cassegrain.

In November 1672 he took his army to Maastricht to threaten the French supply lines.

The city, which was held against its will in the states of the Republic, failed to defend itself against the French invasion in 1672 ( the Disaster Year )

On Christmas night 1672, local Antanosy tribesmen, perhaps angry because fourteen French soldiers in the fort had recently divorced their Malagasy wives to marry fourteen French orphan-women sent out to the colony, massacred the fourteen grooms and thirteen of the fourteen brides.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.