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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 ...
A Voyage Round the World (complete title A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, During the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5) is Georg Forster's [nb 1] report on the second voyage of the British explorer James Cook.
March – Gottfried August Bürger obtains a magistracy and is reconciled with his family. [1]May 7 – The Stadsschouwburg theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire.; June At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia of sodomy and poisoning and receives a death sentence; he escapes.
The British credit crisis of 1772–1773, also known as the crisis of 1772, or the panic of 1772, was a peacetime financial crisis which originated in London and then spread to Scotland and the Dutch Republic. [1] It has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. [2]
Pages in category "1772" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Events from the year 1772 in Great Britain. Incumbents ... [3] 10 June – credit crisis of 1772 is triggered when, ...
Commissioned in 1772 and completed in 1782, the Siku quanshu is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls, 2.3 million pages, and about 997 million words. [2] The complete encyclopedia contains an annotated catalogue of 10,680 titles along with a compendiums of 3,593 titles. [3]
The year 1772 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy