* 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 – 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 ).

From Bonn, where he had JCW Augusti ( 1772 – 1841 ), JKL Gieseler, and Karl Immanuel Nitzsch for colleagues, he was called in 1827 to Göttingen to succeed KF Staudlin ( 1761-1826 ).

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich ( later: von ) Schlegel ( 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829 ) was a German poet, critic and scholar.

Karl Friedrich von Schlegel was born on 10 March 1772 at Hanover, and his father was the Lutheran pastor Johann Adolf Schlegel ( 1721-1793 ).

In 1772 he published Der goldene Spiegel oder die Könige van Scheschian, a pedagogic work in the form of oriental stories ; this attracted the attention of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and resulted in his appointment as tutor to her two sons, the Duke Karl August and his brother Prince Constantin, at Weimar.

* Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ( 1772 – 1829 ), known as Friedrich Schlegel, German philosopher, novelist, poet, critic, and scholar

Wenzel I Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( August 9, 1696 – February 10, 1772 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, 1732 and 1745, and 1748 and 1772.

Karl Joakim von Beetzen ( 1 November 1698 in Stralsund, Swedish Pommern, 12 July 1772 in Lanehed, Bokenes, Sweden ).

Karl had devoted himself to the study of Canon law, and entered the church ; and, having been appointed in 1772 governor of Erfurt, he won further advancement by his successful administration ; in 1787 he was elected coadjutor of Mainz and of Worms, and in 1788 of Constance ; in 1802 he became Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Arch-Chancellor of the Empire.

* Karl Ludwig of Nassau-Weilburg ( Kirchheim, 19 July 1772-Kirchheim, 27 July 1772 )

Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter ( the Younger ) ( 6 April 1708 – 11 March 1772 ) was an Austrian composer.

Sveriges politiska historia från Konung Karl XIIs död till statshvälfningen 1772.

From 1772 Karl Eugen had the manor house rebuilt as a water castle surrounded by an extended English garden featuring several midget replicas of historic buildings, an arboretum and numerous exotic plants.

* 1712 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman ( d. 1772 )

* 1772 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician ( d. 1829 )

* 1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher ( d. 1772 )

* May 13 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman ( d. 1772 )

* November 8 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher ( d. 1772 )

Droste's maternal grandfather Werner Adolf von Haxthausen had remarried after the death of his first wife ( Annette's grandmother ) in 1772 and built himself a new castle, Schloss Bökerhof, in the village of Bökendorf, Paderborn.

The school had languished since the death of its founder and first head, Martin Planta ( 1727 – 1772 ), and von Salis hoped to revive it by reconstituting it as a " Philanthropin " under Bahrdt's management.

Niebuhr's first book, Beschreibung von Arabien, was published in Copenhagen in 1772, the Danish government providing subsidies for the engraving and printing of its numerous illustrations.

He was twice married, in 1773 to Karoline Amalie von Mehling ( 1756 – 1791 ), and in 1795 to Amalie von Colomb ( 1772 – 1850 ), sister of General Peter von Colomb.

* Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772 – 1829 ; Robertson, James Burton, 1800 – 1877, 1846

* Count Joachim von Düben ( April 22, 1772-August 22, 1772 )

1768-1778 ), Geheimes Tagebuch von einem Beobachter seiner selbst ( 2 vols., 1772 – 1773 ), and Pontius Pilatus, oder der Mensch in allen Gestalten ( 4 vols., 1782 – 1785 ).

* November 8-Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher ( died 1772 )

* Hans Henrik von Liewen ( 1766 – 1772 )

* Hans Henrik von Liewen the younger ( 1767 – 1772 )

* Hieronymus von Colloredo 1772 – 1812 ( last prince-archbishop, lost temporal power in 1803 after secularization )

He was elevated to Prince von Hessenstein in the Empire in November 1772, and hereditary Furste von Hessenstein in Sweden on 28 April 1785.

* Johann Ulrich von Cramer ( 1706 – 1772 ), German judge, legal scholar, and philosopher