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Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1672 (MDCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1672 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1672

[edit] January - June

• 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.

[edit] July - December

• August 20 - Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
• October - Spain begins construction on the masonry fort that will become Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine

[edit] Undated

• England, France, Münster and Cologne invade the United Provinces. 1672 becomes known as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands.

[edit] Births

1672 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1672 MDCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2425
Armenian calendar	1121 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-172 – -171
Buddhist calendar	2216
Coptic calendar	1388 – 1389
Ethiopian calendar	1664 – 1665
Hebrew calendar	5432 – 5433
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1727 – 1728
- Shaka Samvat	1594 – 1595
- Kali Yuga	4773 – 4774
Holocene calendar	11672
Iranian calendar	1050 – 1051
Islamic calendar	1082 – 1083
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 11 (寛文 11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2332 (皇紀2332年)
Julian calendar	1717
Korean calendar	4005
Thai solar calendar	2215
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• 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)
• October 11 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
• October 21 - Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1750)

See also 1672 births.

[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 8 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (born 1598)
• May 11 - Charles Seton, 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)
• date unknown - Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (born 1603)

See also 1672 deaths.

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