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**1672 on other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1672 MDCLXXII
Julian calendar	1671–1672 (from January 11 )
Julian calendar with the Byzantine era	7180-7181 (from September 11 )
From the foundation of Rome	2424-2425 (from May 1 )
Jewish calendar	5432-5433 ה'תל"ב - ה'תל"ג
Islamic calendar	1082-1083
Ancient Armenian calendar	4164-4165 (from August 21 )
Armenian church calendar	1121 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԱ
Chinese calendar	4368–4369 辛亥 - 壬子 white pig - black rat
Ethiopian calendar	1664 - 1665
Old Indian calendar
- Vikram Samvat	1728-1729
- Shaka Samvat	1594-1595
- Kali Yuga	4773-4774
Iranian calendar	1050-1051
Buddhist calendar	2215

The year 1672 (one thousand six hundred and seventy-second) in the Gregorian calendar is a leap year starting on Friday . This is 1672 year of our era , 672 year of 2 millenniums , 72 year of the 17th century , 2 year of the 8th decade of the 17th century, 3 year of the 1670s .

Content

Events

The Nizhny Novgorod diocese was established .
Charles II published the Declaration of Tolerance in England .
The beginning of the war of France and England against Holland, Spain and Brandenburg (“overbought” by the Dutch).
The invasion of the French army of Turenne and Conde in the South Netherlands and Holland. The French captured a number of strong fortresses and invaded deep into Holland. The Dutch opened dams, and the sea flooded part of the country. The French are forced to retreat. De Ruyter left a small squadron to distract the French and directed the main attacks against the English fleet, managing to ensure the safety of the coast. In the Netherlands, 1672 was called the Year of Disasters .
Establishment of Danish West Indies and Guinean companies.
The rise of the urban lower classes in Holland. The killing by the Orangemen of Jan de Witt .
The uprising of Hungarian and Slovak peasants in Northern Hungary against the Habsburgs .
The Russian government warns Turkey of its readiness to help Poland.
Turkish armies marched towards Buchach and Lviv , not meeting resistance. The diet was torn by a factional struggle. Buchach treaty . Turkey received Podolia , Kamyanets and most of the Right-Bank Ukraine . The battle of the Poles with the Turks near Lviv.
Between Poland and the Ottoman Empire, the Buchach Peace was signed, which never entered into force.
1672-1724 - Khan of the Kalmyks Ayuk (1642-1724). He swore allegiance to Russia.
The German physicist, engineer and philosopher Otto von Guericke ( 1602 - 1686 ) discovered that a sulfur ball cracked and glowed in the dark when charged with electricity from an electrostatic generator (the first to observe electroluminescence ). In addition, he discovered the property of electric repulsion of unipolar charged objects.

Science

Born

See also: Category: Born in 1672

May 1 - Joseph Addison - English writer, publicist, enlightener, politician, pioneer of English journalism.
June 9 - Peter I the Great , Tsar of Russia and the first emperor of the Russian Empire.

Died

See also: Category: Deaths in 1672

May 8 - Jean-Aramann du Peire Count de Treville