* 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 – 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.

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 ).

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 ).

zabory ) means each part of the Commonwealth seized in 1772 – 1795 and turned into a new province of either Imperial Russia, Prussia or Austria.

Other attempts were made by Euler ( 1749 ), de Foncenex ( 1759 ), Lagrange ( 1772 ), and Laplace ( 1795 ).

; 1772 – 1795: Partitions of Poland between Russia, Kingdom of Prussia and Austria.

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.

The first obverse, showing a right-facing bust of the king, with the inscription, was used in 1763, 1766, 1770, 1772, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1784, and 1786 ; the second obverse, showing an older bust of the king and the same inscription, was used in 1792, 1795, and 1800, while the third, laureated bust of the king with the inscription was used in 1817, 1818 and 1820.

Threepences were issued in 1762 – 3, 1765 – 6, 1770, 1772, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1792, 1795, 1800, 1817, 1818, and 1820.

* Nicolette ( 1795 – 1865 ): wife ( 1811 ) of general Guillaume Latrille de Lorencez ( 1772 – 1855 )

Poland disappeared as a state in a third partition in 1795 but the Polish gentry continued to maintain local control in both eastern and western Podolia over a peasant population which was primarily ethnically Ukrainian whose similarity to the other East Slavs already subject to the Habsburg Monarchy was showcased in a 1772 book by Adam F. Kollár and was used as an argument in favor of annexation by the Habsburgs.

Between 1772 – 1795, much of the Eastern Slavic territories became part of Russia.

Kalisz Voivodeship ( 3 ) 1314 – 1793 (, ) was an administrative unit of Poland from 1314 to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Sieradz Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Three Partitions of Poland took place respectively in 1772, 1793 and 1795.

On the other hand, much of Lesser Poland – Nowy Sącz and Przemyśl ( 1772 – 1918 ), Zamość ( 1772 – 1809 ), Lublin ( 1795 – 1809 ), Kraków ( 1846 – 1918 ) – did become part of Austrian Galicia.

Almost all that Prussia had gained by the partitions of Poland ( 1772 – 1795 ) was taken from her.

* Guildhall, London, repairs ( 1772 ), Rooms over Matted Gallery ( 1773 ), Old Council Chamber ( 1774 ), New Council Chamber ( 1777 ), Alterations to Chapel ( 1774 & 1782 ), Town Clerk's House ( 1781 ), New Facade ( 1785-8 ), Chamberlain's House ( 1785-6 ), New Houses, west side of the yard ( 1795 ), Exterior Stuccoed ( 1805 ), windows of the Great Hall redesigned ( 1806 ) & Court of the King's Bench, altered ( 1804-6 ) all has been demolished apart from the facade

Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Sandomierz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Bełz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

The Chełmno Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 1454 / 1466 until the Partitions of Poland in 1772 / 1795.

The Malbork Voivodeship ( Polish: Województwo malborskie ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1454 / 1466 until the partitions in 1772 – 1795.