1772

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s

Years: 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 - 1772 - 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777

• February 17 - First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria

Births

• March 10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829)
• April 7 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (+ 1837)
• May 2 - Novalis, German poet (+ 1801)
• May 20 - William Congreve, British rocket pioneer.
• May 22 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer
• June 6 - Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies[?], later wife of Emperor Francis II
• August 2 - Louis Antoine de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d'Enghien[?]
• August 24 - Prince William VI of Orange, later King William I of the Netherlands
• October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, (+ 1834)
• November 23 - Duke Augustus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg[?]
• Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader

Deaths

• February 8 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales.
• March 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician