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1772| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1766–1777 | UK [canals] | English engineer James Brindley begins work on the Grand Trunk Canal linking the Trent and Mersey rivers. It crosses the Pennines by the Harecastle tunnel and will establish a water route between the North Sea and the Irish Sea. | | 1770–1780 | America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the American colonies is 2,780,369 including 575,420 black slaves. | | 1772 | Germany [astronomy] | German astronomer Johann Elert Bode publicizes the Titius–Bode law, first proposed in 1766 by Johann Titius, which states that the distances to the planets are proportional to the terms of the series 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, … | | 1772 | Ethiopia [exploration] | Scottish explorer James Bruce explores Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and traces the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile. | | 5 August 1772 | Poland, Prussia, Austria-HM, Russia [political events] | Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia engineers the First Partition of Poland, dividing one-third of Polish territory between Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Prussia takes west Prussia (except Danzig, modern Gdansk) and Ermeland in the north, Austria takes Little Poland south of the Vistula, and Russia takes lands east of the Dvina and Dnieper rivers. | | 21 October 1772 | England [births and deaths] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, literary critic, and philosopher, born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England (–1834). | | 1 November 1772 | France [chemistry] | French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier disproves the phlogiston theory by demonstrating that combustion is caused by a reaction with a component of air. |
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‘Sun’ Quartets
Annapolis
Avondano, Pedro Antonio
Bagster, Samuel
Belloy, Dormont de
Bierey, Gottlob Benedikt
Clinton, Henry
Gassmann, Florian Leopold
Graf, Friedrich Hartmann
Grétry, Lucile
| Gustavus III
Haydn, Joseph
Hook, James
Lviv
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Neefe, Christian Gottlob
Priestley, Joseph
Sacchini, Antonio Maria Gaspare
Schweitzer, Anton
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| Between 1768 and 1772 the Scotch traveller, Bruce, set out from Massowah, a port of Abyssinia, traversed the Tigre, visited the ruins of Axum, saw the sources of the Nile where they did not exist, and obtained no serious result. Coleridge was two years or more younger than Wordsworth, having been born in 1772. Born in Devonshire in 1772, the youngest of the many children of a self-made clergyman and schoolmaster, he was a precocious and abnormal child, then as always a fantastic dreamer, despised by other boys and unable to mingle with them. |