* 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

Bourbon France challenged Habsburg Spain's supremacy in the Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 59 ); gaining definitive ascendancy in the War of Devolution ( 1667 – 68 ), and the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 78 ), under the leadership of Louis XIV.

It includes: Henrietta Maria of France ( died 1669 ), exiled Queen of England ; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans ; his first wife Henrietta Anne Stuart | Princess Henriette ( died 1670 ); the couples first daughter Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( later Queen of Spain ); Anne of Austria ( died 1666 ); the Orléans daughters of Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston de France ; Louis XIV ; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ) | Marie-Thérèse de France, called Madame Royale ( died 1672 ) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d ' Anjou ( d1671 ).

For the Dutch Republic, 1672 proved calamitous, becoming known as the " disaster year " ( Dutch: rampjaar ) because of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Netherlands were invaded by France under Louis XIV, England, Münster, and Cologne.

In 1672, following his retirement from the stage, Louis XIV made Lully the director of the Académie Royale de Musique ( Paris Opera ) in which the first professional ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet, arose.

In 1672, the Dutch rampjaar, the city held against the army of Louis XIV.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

** Marie Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ), daughter of Louis XIV,

** Louis François of France ( 1672 ), Duke of Anjou, son of Louis XIV,

The principality was captured by the forces of King Louis XIV of France under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch War in 1672, and again in August 1682.

Stadtholder William III of Orange, who later became King of England, emerged as the strongest opponent of king Louis XIV after the French attacked the Dutch Republic in 1672.

The city remained part of scattered Nassau holdings until it was captured by the forces of Louis XIV in 1672 during the Franco-Dutch War, again captured in August 1682 and was finally ceded to France in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht that ended the wars of Louis XIV.

King Louis XIV took over the function when Séguier died in 1672 ; since then, the French head of state has always served as the Académie's protector.

The aggressive campaign of Louis XIV against the Netherlands, since 1672, had provoked a hostile reaction of other European states like Austria ( who controlled the Holy Roman Empire ) and Brandenburg.

Maaseik was also besieged in 1672 by Louis XIV.

In June 1672, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he accompanied Arlington to Nieuwerbrug to impose terms on the Prince of Orange, and when these were refused with Arlington arranged a new treaty, the Accord of Heeswijk with Louis.

" On 22 April 1672 he was created an earl, and on 15 June obtained the Garter ; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to William at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force upon the Dutch terms of peace which were indignantly refused, failing to end the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

He was now completely re-established in the favour of Louis, and with Turenne was the principal French commander in the celebrated campaign of 1672 against the Dutch.

In Louis XIV's Dutch War of 1672 Turenne accompanied the army commanded by the king which overran the Dutch United Provinces up to the gates of Amsterdam.

Louis declared war on the Dutch on 6 April 1672, and Charles followed suit the next day, 27 March ( Old Style ).

In the years following the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 78 ) King Louis XIV of France – now at the height of his powers – set about to impose religious unity in France, and solidify and expand his frontiers.

Louis XIV had already won his personal glory by conquering new territory, but he was no longer willing to pursue an open-ended militarist policy of the kind he had undertaken in 1672, and instead relied upon France's clear military superiority to achieve specific strategic objectives along his borders.

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.

Charles appointed Godolphin envoy-extraordinary to Louis XIV in 1672 in order to reassure the French King of Charles's allegiance before Louis attacked the Dutch.

He was created a privy councillor in 1672, and, while it is believed that he was ignorant of the secret clauses in the Treaty of Dover, was chosen envoy to negotiate terms of peace with Louis XIV and the Dutch at Utrecht.

After succeeding in isolating them through alliances with several German princes, England and Sweden, Louis XIV started the Franco-Dutch War in 1672, which was to expand into a pan-European conflict.

Whilst visiting France in 1672 he rejected the liberal offers made by Louis XIV to induce him to enter the service of France, and returning to England he added to his high reputation by his conduct during the Battle of Texel in August 1673.

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

In 1672, the town of New Castle was incorporated and English law ordered.

The Church of the Santissima Trinidade () in Capelo, was ordered constructed by the Captain-major, Jorge Goulart Pimental, to replace the parochial church destroyed during the 1672 eruption ( Church of Nossa Senhora da Esperança ).

In 1672, San Vitores ordered Churches built in four villages, including Merizo.

By 1672 he had promoted the construction of a wool factory in Linz.

Located on the shore of Matanzas Bay in the city of St. Augustine, Florida, construction was begun in 1672, 107 years after the city's founding by Spanish Admiral and conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, when Florida was part of the Spanish Empire.

The year 1672 saw the construction of a Motte-and-bailey wall ( de Skâns ) around the settlement, due to its strategic position to protect the regained independence of Friesland in the aftermath of the Friso-Hollandic Wars.

The construction of Gyldenløves Palace in Copenhagen, later to be known as Charlottenborg Palace, began on 3 April 1672 when Frederick III laid the first stone for his illegitimate son.

Clifford's Fort, located on the Fish Quay was built in the 17th century ( 1672 ) as a coastal defence against the Dutch.

Originally called Fort Saint-Louis, it soon came to be known by the name of its first commanding officer, Jacques de Chambly, to whom the surrounding seigniory was granted in 1672.

Clifford's Fort, located on the Fish Quay was built in the 17th century ( 1672 ) as a coastal defence against the Dutch.

In 1672 Charles Albanel reached Charles Fort from the Saint Lawrence.

1672 – 1689 ) was a governor of the now abandoned Hudson's Bay Company settlement at Port Nelson ( or Fort Nelson ) on Hudson Bay, located in the northern part of the modern province of Manitoba.

The Danish West India Company settled on Saint Thomas in 1672, on Saint John in 1694, and purchased Saint Croix from France in 1733.

The name has been suggested to be related to Russian Липа ( lipa ), linden tree or to Filippovka, a holiday name dedicated to Saint Philip, however, the accepted etymology says it's derived from name of Filipp Pustosviat ( 1672 – 1742 ), the adepts of whom being named filippovcy or ( fi ) lippovane.

The cog-wheel symbolised all the local industries and the demi-figure of Saint Patrick referred to Old Kilpatrick, a burgh of barony from 1672, and where the saint is reputed to have been born.

In 1671 he entered the Convent of Saint Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, and in 1672 Coronelli was sent by the order to the College of Saint Bonaventura and Saints Apostoli in Rome where he earned his doctor ’ s degree in theology in 1674.

In 1672, Saint Thomas was taken but the French were driven out by the Dutch.

Like his brother, Engel became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Corydon, and he moved with him to Lyons, where in the year 1672, he became a ' Maître-Garde ' of the Guild of Saint Luke there.