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The Kerguelen Islands, an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, were discovered uninhabited on February 12, 1772 by Breton navigator Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, and have remained without a permanent population ever since. The only residents were during an attempt to set up a farm, a few occasional occupations for whaling ...
26 February 1772 An Act for continuing and granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and seventy-two. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871 ( 34 & 35 Vict. c. 116))
12 February – Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean. The Clicquot Champagne house is founded by Philippe Clicquot in Reims. Houbigant Parfum is founded by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse in Paris. [2]
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 ...
12 September – Daniel Rutherford demonstrates the method of distinguishing nitrogen from other gases. [6] 21 September – Birmingham Canal Navigations main line open for traffic, linking Birmingham to the River Severn via the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. [3] 2 November – The Morning Post newspaper published for the first time. [7]
February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1704 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French author (d. 1772) 1706 – Johann Joseph Christian, ...
The owners of the mills were named as offenders in the February 7, 1772, edition of The New Hampshire Gazette. The mill owners hired lawyer Samuel Blodgett to represent them, who met with Governor Wentworth. When the governor offered Blodgett the job of Surveyor of the King's Woods, he accepted, and, rather than getting the charges dropped, he ...
The Boston Pamphlet was a 1772 pamphlet published in Boston in the American Revolution.Written by members of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, the pamphlet outlined the rights of British American colonists and indicated how recent British policies were in violation of those rights.