* 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.

* 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 ).

* October 10 – Charles Fourier, philosopher ( b. 1772 )

* February 12 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer ( d. 1772 )

This portrait was painted in 1772 by Charles Willson Peale.

In 1772, Charles married Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern.

* Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ), utopian socialist

Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.

Nash had many pupils and assistants including Humphry Repton's sons, John Adey Repton and George Stanley Repton, as well as Anthony Salvin, John Foulon ( 1772 – 1842 ), Augustus Charles Pugin, F. H.

After the coup d ' état which introduced absolute monarchy in 1772, his brother Gustav III arranged a marriage between Charles and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.

* William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle ( 1772 – 1849 )

Between 1772 and 1774, Fox's father had – shortly before dying – had to pay off £ 120, 000 of Charles ' debts ; the equivalent of around £ 11 million at today's prices.

* Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ), French utopian socialist thinker

Between 1772 and 1775 He accompanied Captain John Jervis to Russia where they spent time in St. Petersburg and inspected the arsenal and dockyards at Kronstadt and took a tour of the yacht designed by Sir Charles Knowles for Catherine the Great.

When Charles III of Spain adopted new coinage designs in 1772, he also reduced the fineness of the peso from 0. 9166 to 0. 9028.

Claude Charles Fauriel ( 21 October 1772 – 15 July 1844 ) was a French historian, philologist and critic.

Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc ( 17 March 1772, Pontoise – 2 November 1802 ) was a French Army general and husband to Pauline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Age of Liberty () is the half century long period of parliamentarianism and increasing civil rights in Sweden, beginning with Charles XII's death in 1718 and ending with Gustav III's coup d ' état in 1772.

* Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch ( 1772 – 1819 )

François Marie Charles Fourier ( born 7 April 1772 in Besançon, France ; died 10 October 1837 in Paris, France ) was a French philosopher.

Charles Pinot ( or Pineau ) Duclos ( 12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772 ) was a French author.

François Marie Charles Fourier ( 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837 ) was a French utopian socialist and philosopher.

He went to London, according to Charles Burney, in 1768, but according to Florimo in 1772, returned to Naples in 1777.

* Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, 6th Duke of Queensberry ( 1772 – 1819 ), second son of the 3rd Duke

* Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, 6th Duke of Queensberry ( 1772 – 1819 ), second son of the 3rd Duke

Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ) was by far the most utopian of the socialists.