1772

• The King of Sweden Gustav III arrested some deputies of the State Council and, relying on the army, forced the Riksdag to recognize the new constitution that strengthened the royal power.
• January 17 - As a result of a coup in the Danish-Norwegian Kingdom, a group of aristocrats arrested a German doctor, Johann Friedrich Struenze , who concentrated almost unlimited power in his hands. The conspirators entered the bedroom of King Christian and forced him to sign the order for the arrest of Struenze and his closest associates of Brand, Faldensheld, Brother Struenze. Struenze accused of intimate communication with the queen. April 28 - his penalty. Penalty Brand The marriage of Queen Carolina-Matilda with the king is annulled.
• 1772-1784 - Head of the Government of Denmark Gouldberg.
• The final suppression of the Bar Confederation .
• August 5 (July 25, Art. Art.) - The Treaty of Petersburg between Russia, Austria and Prussia, under the terms of which the first partition of Poland took place. Prussia received the Pomeranian Voivodeship (without Gdansk), Warmia, Malbork and Helminskie Voivodeship (without Torun), part of Kuyavia and Wielkopolska . Austria - Galicia , part of Krakow and Sandomierz voivodeships and Russian voivodeship with Lviv (without Kholmsk land), Hungary - Spis , Russia - Upper Dnieper, Dvivje and Latgale (Polotsk, Vitebsk, Mogilyov, Gomel, Dvinsk (Daugavpils)).
• Construction of the Bydgoszcz Canal in Poland connecting the Vistula (via the Brda tributary) with the Odra (via the Notez and Warta tributaries).
• Restoration of Turkish domination over Egypt. Ali Bey fled to Palestine.
• The expulsion from China of all European missionaries.
• 1772-1792 - Collection of all printed books ever published in China. A library of 172,626 volumes was formed (10,223 titles).
• The local Jinchuan tribes revolted in Sichuan . Troops from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are thrown against them.
• Founded Music Club in St. Petersburg .
• The decision to pay governors, judges and other officials in the British colonies from the royal treasury. Creation in Boston at a city meeting of the first Correspondence Committee.
• 1772-1775 - Cook's second expedition to Australia and Polynesia . Discovery of New Caledonia and numerous islands of Polynesia. Eastern Australia Cook called New South Wales .
• The Crimean Khan Sahib II Gerai signs the Karasubazar Treaty with Russia, which provides for the complete independence of the Crimea from the Ottoman Empire and the patronage of Russia.

See also: Category: Born in 1772

• March 17 - Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc , French commander, divisional general , commander of the expeditionary force and captain-general San Domingo , husband of Napoleon Bonaparte ’s sister (d. 1802 )
• May 2 - Novalis (him. Novalis, pseudonym, real name - Friedrich von Gardenberg Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg; May 2, 1772, Wederstedt - March 25, 1801, Weissenfels) - German writer, poet, mystic. One of the representatives of German romanticism.
• September 11 - David Ricardo , English economist, classic of political economy .
• October 25 - Gerard Christophe Michel Duroc , French general, chief marshal of the court of Napoleon I (ab. 1813 ).
• Makar Ivanovich Ratmanov - Russian navigator, vice-admiral .
• Ivan Yakovlevich Bukharin - Privy Councilor , Senator , Governor of Ryazan , Arkhangelsk , Astrakhan , Kiev provinces and the Grand Duchy of Finland (died 1858 ).

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• March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg , a Swedish scholar and mystic theosophist.