1672
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| Years: | 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1672 MDCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2425 |
| Armenian calendar | 1121 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԱ |
| Chinese calendar | 4368 – 4369 辛亥 – 壬子 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1664 – 1665 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5432 – 5433 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1727 – 1728 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1594 – 1595 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4773 – 4774 |
| Iranian calendar | 1050 – 1051 |
| Islamic calendar | 1083 – 1084 |
1672 (MDCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- March - The Synod of Jerusalem brought together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.
- March 15 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
- May 2 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- June 12 - French forces under king Louis XIV cross the Rhine to Netherlands
- June 28 - William III of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht.
- August 20 - Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
- England, France, Münster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is known as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands.
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
- January 15 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
- February 13 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
- February 26 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
- May 1 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
- June 9 - Emperor Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
- June 11 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
- August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
- September 8 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1750)
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - John Cosin, English clergyman (born 1594)
- February 19 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (born 1592)
- April 22 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (born 1598)
- May 5 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (born 1609)
- May 11 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (born 1615)
- May 28 - John Trevor, English politician (born 1626)
- June 27 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (born 1597)
- July 3 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (born 1635)
- August 20 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (born 1625)
- August 20 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (born 1623)
- September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (born 1615)
- September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial writer (born c.1612)
- October 24 - John Webb, English architect (born 1611)
- November 6 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (born 1585)
- November 19 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (born 1614)
- December 6 - King John II Casimir of Poland (born 1609)
- December 7 - Richard Bellingham, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (born 1592)
- Semyon Dezhnev, Russian navigator (born c.1605)
- Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (born 1603)
