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.

Its main streets were laid out in Neoclassical style after the plans of Ivan Starov ( 1772 ).

The plans for a wooden bridge proved unpopular, and in 1772 the Richmond Bridge Act was passed by Parliament, selecting 90 commissioners, including landscape architect Lancelot " Capability " Brown, historian and politician Horace Walpole and playwright and actor David Garrick, to oversee the construction of a stone bridge on the site of the ferry.

The canal took 18 years to build, between 1772 and 1795, to plans laid out by Johan Ullström.

On the death of Lady Cowper's elder sister, Lady Frances Elliot, in 1772, the second Earl's son, the third Earl became Lord Grantham's heir general, and on 31 January 1778 he was created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire ( Reichsfürst ) by the Emperor Joseph II.

The elder Haffner died in 1772, but the families remained in contact.

In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother " I never saw a part done so excellent in all my life, for in her acting she has all the simplicity of nature and not the least tincture of the theatrical ".

After the coup d ' état which introduced absolute monarchy in 1772, his brother Gustav III arranged a marriage between Charles and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.

He assisted his brother in the revolution of 1772, and in 1775 was made a colonel and brigadier of the Savolax brigade in east Finland.

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.

Martin's eldest brother, William ( 1772 – 1851 ) was by turn a rope-maker, soldier, inventor, scientist, writer and lecturer, who attempted to develop a rival philosophy to " Newtonian " science, allowing for perpetual motion, and denying the law of gravity.

William Langhorne ( 1721 – 1772 ) Church of England clergyman, poet and translator, with his brother, of Plutarch's Lives into English

After the death of Madhavrao Peshwa in 1772, his brother Narayanrao became Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

His older brother Reuben was born in 1772.

Richard Tonson ( died 1772 ), the third Jacob Tonson's brother, who took little part in the concerns of the business, lived at Water Oakley, near Windsor, where he built a room for the Kit-Cat portraits.

Her brother Andrew should not be confused with Andrew Montour ( c. 1720 – 1772 ), the well-known interpreter who was probably Catharine's uncle.

His father died in 1772 when William was 13, leaving the eldest brother John to care for the family and his education.

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.

In 1772 he became a first lieutenant in the Swiss Guards of King Louis XVI's younger brother, the Comte de Provence.

His brother John, the 3rd earl ( 1718 – 1784 ), was a soldier, who distinguished himself especially at the Battle of Minden and became a general in 1772.

) was home to John Ponsonby, speaker of the Irish House of Commons ( 1753 – 1761 ), William Ponsonby, leader of the Irish Whigs ( 1789 – 1803 ) and birthplace of his brother George Ponsonby ( 1755 – 1817 ) leader of the Whig Party in the British House of Commons at Westminster ( 1808 – 1817 ), his uncle Major-General Sir William Ponsonby ( 1772 – 1815 ) whose inept charge at the Battle of Waterloo resulted in his death at the hands of the Polish Landers and was studied as an example of failed battle strategy for generations afterwards, and of his sister Mary Ponsonby, wife of Charles Grey, British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834 and best known nowadays as the Earl Grey of the tea brand.

After the arrest of Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilde on 17 January 1772, and the subsequent execution of Struensee and the banishment and imprisonment of her mother, she was raised at the Danish court residing at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen along with her three-year old brother, Crown Prince Frederik under the supervision of the Dowager Queen Juliane Marie.

* 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.

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

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

# 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.

In 1772 the title of King of Prussia was granted with the establishment of the Kingdom of Prussia.

From 1772 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King of Prussia.

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.

His sister Caroline came to England in 1772 and lived with him there in New King Street.

* December 12 – King William I of the Netherlands ( b. 1772 )

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau ( 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ), was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

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

Turgot was to be an administrator under King Louis XV in 1772, and became Controller-General of Finance under Louis XVI in 1774.

King Gustav III ( 1746 – 1792 ) came to the throne in 1771, and in 1772 led a coup d ' état, with French support, that established him as an " enlightened despot ," who ruled at will.

In 1772, as a result of the First Partition, instigated by Prussia's King Frederick II (" the Great "), Krasicki became a Prussian subject.

After half a century of largely unrestricted parliamentary rule proved just as ruinous, King Gustav III seized back royal power in the coup d ' état of 1772, and later once again abolished the privy council under the Union and Security Act in 1789, which, in turn, was rendered void in 1809 when Gustav IV Adolf was deposed in a coup and the constitution of 1809 was put in its place.

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

* William I, King of the Netherlands ( 25 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ).

The Act was largely rolled back after King Gustav's coup d ' état in 1772, restored after the overthrowing of his son, Gustav IV of Sweden in 1809, and fully recognized with the abolishment of the king's pregorative to cancel licenses in the 1840s.

Hartford is located on a portion of land owned by Colonel Andrew Waggener, who in 1772 was given by King George III for his services in the French and Indian War.

The coup by which King Gustav III secured power ( 19 August 1772 ) was a major diplomatic triumph for France and brought to an end the Swedish Age of Liberty.

* Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch ( 1704 – 1772 ) traced to King David by way of Rabbi Yohanan, the sandle-maker and master in the Talmud

* 1740 – 1786 Frederick II, son, King of Prussia from 1772

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.