Page 2: Historical Events In 1772

Jun 10   Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders   

Jun 15   Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77   

Jun 18   Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72   

Jun 22   Slavery outlawed in England.   

Jul 13   Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas.   

Jul 25   Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer.   

Aug 05   1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia.   

Aug 05   Poland loses one-third of her territory and half her population as she is partitioned among Russia, Austria, and Prussia   

Aug 11   Explosive eruption blows 4000' off Papandayan Java, results in the deaths of 3000   

Aug 11   Jean Victor Moreau, French general is born   

Aug 11   Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general   

Aug 19   Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish govt and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720.   

Aug 21   Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29   

Aug 21   King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.   

Aug 24   Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40).   

Aug 30   Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader   

Aug 31   Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica   

Sep 01   Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California   

Sep 18   Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer.   

Sep 26   New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine.   

Oct 04   Francois-Louis Perne, composer   

Oct 08   Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60.   

Oct 21   Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner).   

Oct 21   Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and friend of Wordsworth is born.   

Oct 25   Corneille Vander Planken, composer.   

Oct 30   Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown.   

Nov 02   Boston patriot Samuel Adams, 50, and local physician Joseph Warren, 31, organize a Committee of Correspondence, similar committees spring up throughout the colonies, relaying the anti-British polemics of Adams and others   

Nov 02   Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms   

Nov 05   Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50.   

Nov 10   Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer.   

Nov 11   John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84   

Nov 18   Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer.   

Dec 07   Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer   

Dec 12   Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41.   

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Jan 04   Paul-louis courier: (de mere), french writer/interpreter   

Jan 12   Count mikhail speransky: Russian reformer   

Feb 22   Joseph lipavsky: Composer   

Feb 26   Caspar furstenau: Composer   

Mar 10   Friedrich von schlegel: Germany, romantic writer/critic (lucinde)   

Mar 27   Giovanni liverati: Composer   

Mar 30   Johann wilhelm wilms: Composer   

Apr 01   Ignaz franz von mosel: Composer   

Feb 10   Jozef wenceslas: Monarch of liechtenstein/general,    

Feb 18   Johann hartwig ernst: Count von bernstorff, danish statesman (b. 1712)   

Mar 02   Robert j pothier: French lawyer,    

Mar 11   George reuter: Composer,    

Mar 21   Jacques-nicolas bellin: French cartographer (b. 1703)   

Mar 22   John canton: English physicist (b. 1718)   

Mar 26   Charles pinot duclos: French writer (b. 1704)   

Mar 29   Emanuel swedenborg: Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)