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.

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

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

As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency takes over the ruling of Sweden until 1672.

* 1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

* March 7 – Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond ( d. 1672 )

* November 5 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College ( died 1672 )

Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it.

# Barbara ( Benedicta ) Fitzroy ( 1672 – 1737 ) – She was probably the child of John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, who was another of Cleveland's many lovers, and was never acknowledged by Charles as his own daughter.

# Charles Lennox ( 1672 – 1723 ), created Duke of Richmond ( 1675 ) in England and Duke of Lennox ( 1675 ) in Scotland.

Meanwhile, William had written a secret letter to Charles in January 1672 asking his uncle to exploit the situation by exerting pressure on the States-General to appoint William stadtholder.

During the reign of King Charles II, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 1672 ( see Depiction on British coinage and postage stamps below ).

To provide for short-term money Charles therefore on 2 January 1672 repudiated the Crown debts in the Great Stop of the Exchequer which gained him ₤ 1, 300, 000.

In January 1672, William, by then having figured out the intentions of Charles by himself, tried to exploit this by offering Charles to make the Dutch Republic a faithful ally of England.

His mother Queen Hedvig Eleonora was the formal regent until Charles XI attained his majority on 18 December 1672, but she never involved herself much in politics.

During the winter of 1672, however, Charles — still childless — decided that the risk to the Duke, his heir, was too great and made Rupert supreme Allied commander in his place.

* Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby ( 1628 – 1672 )

At the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672, a brigade of 6, 000 British troops was sent to serve as part of the French army ( in return for money paid to King Charles ), with Monmouth as its commander.

* Charles Scott, Earl of Doncaster ( 24 August 1672 – 9 February 1673 / 1674 ).

The operation of these laws at least as far as Protestants were concerned was mitigated somewhat by Charles II's Royal Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, which suspended the execution of penal laws and allowed a certain number of non-conformist chapels to be staffed and constructed, with the pastors subject to royal approval.

Charles issued the Declaration on 15 March 1672.

From around 1672, the year of the coming of age of Charles XI, the council was assembled less and less frequently and eventually the king ruled autocratically, using an ad hoc group of trusted relations and advisors to discuss a particular matter or group of matters.

On the complete volte-face and surrender made by Charles to France in 1670, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a Roman Catholic, was entrusted with the first Treaty of Dover of 20 May — which besides providing for the united attack on Holland, included Charles's undertaking to proclaim himself a Catholic and to reintroduce the Roman Catholic faith into England, — while Buckingham was sent to France to carry on the sham negotiations which led to the public treaties of 31 December 1670 and 2 February 1672.

When King Charles II issued his Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, Owen drew up an address of thanks ; Owen was one of the first preachers at the weekly lectures which the Independents and Presbyterians jointly held at Princes ' Hall in Broad Street.

* 1609 – King John II Casimir of Poland ( d. 1672 )

Hannah was the daughter of Col. Philip Ludwell II ( 1672 – 1726 ) of " Greenspring ", and Hannah Harrison ( 1679 – 1731 ).

* March 22 – John II Casimir of Poland ( d. 1672 )

# John Casimir (; 22 May 1609 1672 ), reigned 1648 – 1668 as John II Casimir Vasa of Poland

John II Casimir (; ; ( 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania during the era of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Opole in Upper Silesia, and titular King of Sweden 1648 – 1660.

Many more were built over the open land surrounding the Inn, although this was controversial at the time ; in November 1672 the Privy Council and Charles II himself were petitioned to order that nothing should be built on the open land, and a similar request was sent to the Lord Chancellor in May 1673.

The king insisted that his left profile be used on the coinage instead of the right which would have been used if he had followed the alternating tradition going back to Charles II ; the obverse has the inscription, but in a complete break from tradition Britannia was dropped from the reverse for the first time since 1672, and replaced by one of Britain's smallest birds, the wren.

But Commons wanted to address a different item of business-the Declaration of Indulgence that had been issued by Charles II during the recess in 1672 suspending penal laws on Dissenters and Catholics.

Yet if England was left to itself the situation could become desperate for the Dutch Republic: Louis XIV might intervene and so make James II his vassal ; or James, wishing to distract his subjects, might even join with Louis in a repetition of the attack made on the Dutch Republic in 1672.

One final edition appeared in ( 1672 ) during the reign of King Charles II when the English scientific revolution was well in progress, culminating in Isaac Newton's discoveries.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC ( 22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683 ), known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.

In an attempt to conciliate the Nonconformists, on 15 March 1672, Charles II issued his Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending the penal laws that punished non-attendance at Church of England services.

Between 1669 and 1672 two Indulgences were granted in the name of Charles II, intended to bring over 270 dissenters, a third of the ministry, back into the fold of the Church of Scotland.

It contains a monument to Richard Nicolls ( 1624 – 1672 ), an Ampthill native, who, under the patronage of the Duke of York, brother to Charles II, to whom the king had granted the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland, received the submission of its chief town, New Amsterdam, in 1664, and became its first English governor, the town taking the name of New York.

It was created in 1672 for Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley, a prominent politician in the Cabal then dominating the policies of King Charles II.

* Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox ( 1672 – 1723 ), illegitimate son of Charles II

Commissioned by King Charles II, and designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the fine arch of Portland stone was constructed between 1669 and 1672.

* John II Casimir of Poland ( 1609 – 1672 )

They were so impressed with it that they demonstrated it to Charles II in January 1672.

In 1672 a French force under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé captured the city.

Lady Barbara FitzRoy ( 16 July 1672 – 6 May 1737 ) was the sixth and youngest child of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, a mistress of Charles II of England.

Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Aubigny ( 29 July 1672 – 27 May 1723 ) was the illegitimate son of Charles II of England and his mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.