Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

In 1772, Rousseau was invited to present recommendations for a new constitution for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the Considerations on the Government of Poland, which was to be his last major political work.

* August 1 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third ( and last ) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( 1771 – 1772 ) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

The earliest nomenclaturally valid work to use the name " Crustacea " was Morten Thrane Brünnich's in 1772, although he also included chelicerates in the group.

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.

During 1772, they asked Smeaton to survey a route to avoid the lower Aire, but his assistant, William Jessop actually carried out the work.

Augustin Ehrensvärd ( 1710 – 1772 ) and his gigantic fortification work on the islands off the town of Helsinki brought the district a new and unexpected importance.

Here he wrote his Neue Apologie des Socrates ( 1772 ), a work occasioned by an attack on the fifteenth chapter of Jean-François Marmontel's Belisarius by Peter Hofstede, a Rotterdam clergyman.

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.

The same work contained the celebrated formula known as Taylor's theorem, the importance of which remained unrecognised until 1772, when J. L. Lagrange realized its powers and termed it " le principal fondement du calcul différentiel " (" the main foundation of differential calculus ").

The first work he edited was the Anthologia Graeca or Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum ( 1772 – 1776 ), in which his innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars.

Even so in 1772, King Louis XV granted Cugnot a pension of 600 livres a year for his innovative work and the experiment was judged interesting enough for the fardier to be kept at the Arsenal until transferred to the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1800, where it can still be seen today.

The work of Rebecca Hammond Lard ( 1772 – 1855 ), although quite old, still apply to life in today's world.

The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 1772 and 1775 ; however, the details of that development are no longer entirely clear.

( Halle, 1772 ) was long considered a reference work on Russian history.

* Cazotte's Le Diable amoureux ( The Devil in Love, 1772 ) was sub-titled un roman fantastique, the first time in literary history that a work was so labeled.

James's " vastation " initiated a spiritual crisis that lasted two years, and was finally resolved through the thorough exploration of the work of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), the Swedish scientist, religious visionary and teacher, and mystic.

This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as the founder of scientific technology, a term which he was the first to use in 1772.

In 1772 Beckmann was elected a member of the Royal Society of Göttingen, and he contributed valuable scientific dissertations to its proceedings until 1783, when he withdrew from all further share in its work.

Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) inspired Andrew Jackson Davis ( 1826 – 1910 ), in his major work The Great Harmonia to say that Summerland is the pinnacle of spiritual achievement in the afterlife ; that is, it is the highest level, or ' sphere ', of the afterlife we can hope to enter.

Building the fortress of Sveaborg became a life's work for Ehrensvärd, who kept expanding the island fortress until his death in 1772.

In 1772 he published the first part of The Antiquities of England and Wales, a work which he unashamedly aimed at the popular market.

James succeeded Robert as Architect of the King ’ s Works in 1768 just before work on the brothers ' Adelphi project ( 1768 – 1772 ) almost bankrupted the firm ( the business employed other notable architects including Joseph Bonomi ( 1739 – 1808 ) who, from 1768, remained with the Adams until 1781 ).

Delolme also wrote in English Parallel between the English Government and the former Government of Sweden ( 1772 ); A History of the Flagellants ( 1782 ), based upon a work of Boileau's ; An Essay on the Union of Scotland with England ( 1787 ), and one or two smaller works.

The virial theorem can be obtained directly from Lagrange's Identity as applied in classical gravitational dynamics, the original form of which was included in Lagrange's " Essay on the Problem of Three Bodies " published in 1772.

* An Essay towards an Investigation of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters, London, Printed by T. Spilsbury for S. Leacroft ( 1772 ); reprinted: R. C. Alston, ed., English Linguistics, 1500-1800: a Collection of Facsimile Reprints, No. 354.

King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on the supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the Battle of Ethandun.

La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.

In 1772, Empress Maria Theresa commented on her preference of Italian composers over Germans like Gassmann, Salieri or Gluck.

* 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.

In 1772, Antoine Lavoisier used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen, and showed that the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide, proving that diamond is composed of carbon.

Hopkinson obtained a public appointment as a customs collector for New Castle, Delaware on May 1, 1772.

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

It was brought under control and followed in 1772 by the First Partition of the Commonwealth, a permanent encroachment on the outer Commonwealth provinces by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria.

* Considerations on the Government of Poland, 1772

1844 ), the success of which led to his being invited to Berlin by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772 for the purpose of computing ephemerides on an improved plan.

The islands were discovered by the Breton-French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec on 12 February 1772.

* The Seven Books on the Art of War online 1772 edition

The first of these was Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), a Swedish scientist who after a religious experience devoted himself to Christian mysticism, believing that he could travel to Heaven and Hell and commune with angels, demons and spirits, and who published widely on the subject of his experiences.

The Pope went on to engage in the Suppression of the Jesuits, the decree to this effect being written in November 1772, and signed in July 1773.

Approximately at 2AM on June 10, 1772, a band of Providence residents attacked and subsequently burned to the waterline, the grounded HMS Gaspee, for harassing shipping within Narragansett Bay.

After practicing as a circuit lawyer for several years, Jefferson married the 23-year-old widow Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772.

In his Arcana Coelestia, Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) expounds on the symbolism and underlying spiritual meaning of both Genesis and Exodus.

Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

In 1772, he published another paper on integral calculus which was widely hailed as a groundbreaking paper in several domains.

He intended to go with Cook on his second voyage, which began on 13 May 1772, but difficulties arose about the accommodation for Banks and his assistants, and he decided not to go.