7 events found for 1772
Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire an
The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand
First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Russia sign three bilateral conventions…
Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power…
King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule…
The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.