* 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer ( d. 1772 )

* 1696 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein ( d. 1772 )

* 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d ' état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

* 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist ( d. 1823 )

* 1772 – The First Partition of Poland begins.

* 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834 ), English poet and philosopher

* Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes, in collaboration with Raynal ( 1772 – 1781 )

* Susanna Parker ( 1772 – 1856 )

In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).

Carte de la Guyane françoise et l ' isle de Cayenne effectuée en 1793 par Jacques-Nicolas Bellin ( 1703 – 1772 ) un cartographe affecté au ministère de la Marine française.

* 1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter ( d. 1832 )

* 1772 – Sir George Murray, Scottish soldier and politician ( d. 1830 )

* 1695 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( d. 1772 )

# On 15 September 1790, to his double first cousin Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies ( 6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807 ), daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( both were grandchildren of Empress Maria Theresa and shared all of their other grandparents in common ), with whom he had twelve children, of whom only seven reached adulthood.

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

In 1772 – 1795 Prussia took part in the partitions of Poland.

The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ), a poet and historian.

The three Partitions of Poland | Partitions of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1772, 1793, and 1795 )

* Kings of Galicia and Lodomeria ( 1772 – 1918 ), and

The philosopher Denis Diderot was Editor in Chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72, 000 article Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1772 ).

* 1772 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia ( b. 1711 )

* 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

* 1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, American daughter of Thomas Jefferson ( d. 1836 )

* October 19 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

* John Sherman ( clergyman ) ( 1772 – 1828 ), American Unitarian pastor

The county is named for Landon Carter, the son of John Carter of Virginia, who was " chairman of the court " of the first majority-rule system of American democracy, known as the Watauga Association of 1772.

Tensions between the settlers and the Native American inhabitants ( primarily of the Catawba tribe ) were eased considerably when the boundary dispute between North Carolina and South Carolina was settled in 1772, after which most of the Catawba settled on a reservation near Fort Mill, South Carolina.

In 1770 and 1772 General Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the residents of Vincennes were not remaining loyal, and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes against the British.

* William Nelson ( governor ) ( 1711 – 1772 ), American Colonial governor of Virginia

Elizabethton is the historical site both of the first independent American government ( known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772 ) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen British American colonies.

* HMS Sultana, a Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 – 1772

The first American edition was produced in 1772 ; prior to this, over 1, 000 copies had already been sold in the Thirteen Colonies.

The first settler arrived around 1772, but many new families moved in after the American Revolution.

Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.

* Samuel Harrison Smith ( printer ) ( 1772 – 1845 ), American journalist and newspaper publisher, founded the National Intelligencer, 1800

John Woolman ( October 19, 1720 – October 7, 1772 ) was a North American itinerant Quaker preacher who traveled throughout much of British North America and in England, advocating against cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery and the slave trade.

William Harris Crawford ( February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834 ) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century.

Best known in the United States as the Earl of Hillsborough, he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1768 to 1772, a critical period leading toward the American War of Independence.

Forster's Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ( 1772 – 73 ) on zoology, ornithology, and ichthyology established him as one of the earliest authorities on North American zoology.

The Gaspée Affair, an important naval event of the American Revolution, occurred in 1772 in the bay ; it involved the capture of the HMS Gaspee, a British ship.

Archibald Alexander ( April 17, 1772 – October 22, 1851 ) was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

* Richard Dana ( lawyer ) ( 1699 – 1772 ), American lawyer and politician, father of Francis Dana,

Caesar Augustus Rodney ( January 4, 1772 – June 10, 1824 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware.