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1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1772nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 772nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1772, the ...
Timeline of the American Revolution—timeline of the political upheaval culminating in the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies in North America joined together for independence from the British Empire, and after victory in the Revolutionary War combined to form the United States of America.
The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, [2] placing it among the disputes between Crown and colonists that culminated in the American Revolution.
HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy revenue schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. [1] It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. [2]
1772 " The Rising Glory of America " is a poem written by "Poet of the Revolution" Philip Freneau with a debated but likely minimal level of involvement from "not quite a Founding Father" Hugh Henry Brackenridge of western Pennsylvania.
Major General William Brattle The Powder House ("Magazine") is near the northern edge of this detail from a 1775 map of the siege of Boston.. In 1772, many of the thirteen British colonies, in response to unpopular British actions and the negative British reaction to the Gaspee Affair (the destruction by colonists of a grounded ship involved in enforcing customs regulations), elected to form ...
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807899847. Miller, John Chester (1948). Triumph of Freedom, 1775–1783. Little, Brown. ISBN 9781404748330. Archived from the original on 2012-05-28; Morris, Richard B. (1987). The Forging of the Union, 1781–1789. The New American Nation.
In 1772, the city leaders of Williamsburg passed legislation called the Act to Prevent Mischief from Dogs that forbade anyone to own a female dog in the city. [2] Those living in Williamsburg were allowed to keep up to two male dogs, assuming they wore collars with their owners' initials. [ 2 ]