1772

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1769 1770 1771 – 1772 – 1773 1774 1775

Events

• King Gustav III of Sweden makes a new constitution in Sweden, and gains total power.
• Marquis de Sade sentenced to death.

Births

• May 20-Sir William Congreve, English inventor.
• August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands

Deaths

• March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish thinker and mathematician