Maskelyne proposed measuring the gravitational force deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason ( who had returned to England ) on a site survey through central England and Scotland to find a suitable location during the summer of 1773.

The 1797 scheme came from the renowned Prussian architect Friedrich David Gilly ( 1772 – 1800 ), who proposed a monument to the former Prussian King, Friedrich II.

In 1772 he proposed an expedition to Alta California to the Viceroy of New Spain.

Although John Jebb proposed reforms in 1772, these were blocked by various problems, such as lack of expertise in the smaller colleges in a wider range of subjects.

Records of the Church in Brattle Square disclose that in 1772 Copley was asked to submit plans for a rebuilt meeting-house, and that he proposed an ambitious plan and elevation " which was much admired for its Elegance and Grandure ," but which on account of probable expensiveness was not accepted by the society.

Following the opening of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in 1772, which linked the industrial Midlands to the River Severn at Stourport, the engineer Robert Whitworth proposed a canal to link Stourport to Hereford, passing through Pensax and Leominster in 1777.

His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when he proposed ( in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Besançon ) use of the potato as a source of nourishment for dysenteric patients.

* 1772: In the First Partition of Poland, Royal Prussia ( including Gdynia ) was annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

* King Willem I ( 1772 – 1843 ) at the Dutch Royal House website

In 1772, Forster's father Johann became a member of the Royal Society.

He had himself already secretly married Maria Fitzherbert ; however, his marriage to Fitzherbert violated the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and thus was not legally valid.

The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 made it illegal for all persons born into the British royal family to marry without the permission of the Sovereign, and any marriage contracted without the Sovereign ’ s consent was considered illegal and invalid.

On 22 October 1772 Amherst was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and soon gained the confidence of George III who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the Royal Family.

After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the 1772 First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, East Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as the Province of East Prussia the following year.

After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia, part of western Royal Prussia, with large Polish-Catholic population was forcibly merged with the former Duchy of Prussia.

Most of Polish Royal Prussia was annexed by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the 1772 First Partition of Poland.

Between 1466 and 1772 the city belonged to the Polish province of Royal Prussia.

* Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce ( 1772 )

After securing the Queen's permission ( which is required by a British law, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, for children of the monarch ), Andrew and Sarah were married in Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986.

The original grants for this area, issued by the Royal Governor of New York in 1767 and 1772, were for two towns.

Before 1772, when he obtained a travelling studentship given by the Royal Academy and proceeded to Rome, he had already exhibited several fine works.

During the First ( 1772 ) and Second ( 1793 ) Partitions of Poland, Royal Prussia was gradually annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia.

* Karin Friedrich, The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569 – 1772, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-58335-7 on Google Books

After the Kingdom of Prussia's annexation of Royal Prussia in 1772, a year later former Ducal Prussia including formerly Royal Prussian Warmia ( German: Ermland ) was reorganised into the Province of East Prussia, while most of former Royal Prussia became the Province of West Prussia.

The right of succession is regulated by the Act of Settlement 1701, the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and common law, and is limited to the legitimate descendants of legitimate line from the Electress Sophia of Hanover.

* HMS Sultana, a Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 – 1772

In 1772, he was appointed by Felice Giardini to play violin in the opera at Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), and from 1773 he was principal violist there.

The marriage was illegal because it had not received the prior approval of King George III and the Privy Council as required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772.

Some five years later, in 1772, Thomas Scott, later to become a biblical commentator and co-founder of the Church Missionary Society, took up the curacy of the neighbouring parishes of Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood.

San Juan Bautista Creek: Juan Crespí, May 1 for the setting of the first international division line between Old or Lower California ( Dominicans ) and New or Upper California ( Franciscans ) five leagues to the north ( Valley of the Médanos ) being established by: Priest Francisco Palóu on 19 August 1773 ( Mojonera of Palou ) in compliance with the instructions put forth on the April 7, 1772 Concordato. Rosarito Historical Society, Baja California A. C. at The Mission, Baja California, on 20 May 1990.

A courthouse and gaol ( jail ) were built at Long Bluff ( near present day Society Hill ) and were operational by late 1772.

The Tammany Society, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was founded in New York on May 12, 1789, originally as a branch of a wider network of Tammany Societies, the first having been formed in Philadelphia in 1772.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society so early as November 1772, and devoted a large part of his income to experiments in science and philosophy.

Scientific research was continued by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( 1772 – 1844 ) and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), founder of the Anthropological Society in France in 1859.

In 1772, the Warden and Society of the town gave a lease of 30 years to Thomas Ingram at the pool.

Forster's Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ( 1772 – 73 ) on zoology, ornithology, and ichthyology established him as one of the earliest authorities on North American zoology.

In 1772, he wrote Elements of Painting with Crayons, by which time he had won premiums for his drawings from the Society of Arts in 1759 and 1760, and entered the Royal Academy school of art in 1770, winning its gold medal for figure drawing the same year.

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.

As a member ( 1772 – 1791 ) of Poland's Commission of National Education ()– the world's first ministry of education – he was the initiator of and presided over the Society for Elementary Textbooks (, founded in 1775 ).

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1772, and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1784.

He was part of the inner " Chevra Kadisha " ( Holy Society ) school of the Maggid Rebbe Dov Ber of Mezeritch ( second leader of the Hasidic movement ), who became the decentralised, third generation leadership after the passing of Rebbe Dov Ber in 1772.

The family were prominent Quakers: his brother Joseph Pease ( 1772 – 1846 ) was a founder of the Peace Society in 1817 and involved in the second, 1839 Anti-Slavery Society, for which he wrote tracts.

Jones was the founder of the Gwyneddigion Society ( 1772 ) in London for the encouragement of Welsh studies and literature ; and he began in 1805 a miscellany, the Greal, of which only one volume appeared.

Godfrey Higgins ( January 30, 1772 in Owston, Yorkshire, England – August 9, 1833 ), was an archaeologist, Freemason and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, humanist, social reformer, and author of various now-esoteric and rare books.

At the time of the Partitions of Poland the prince-bishopric of Warmia with Braunsberg became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1772, and in 1773 the Society of Jesus was suppressed.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741 and vice president in 1772.

* James West ( antiquary ) ( 1703 – 1772 ), English politician and antiquary ; president of the Royal Society