1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1772nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 772nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1772, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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June 9: American protesters burn British ship HMS Gaspee.
1772 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1772
MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita2525
Armenian calendar1221
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar6522
Balinese saka calendar1693–1694
Bengali calendar1179
Berber calendar2722
British Regnal year12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2316
Burmese calendar1134
Byzantine calendar7280–7281
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4469 or 4262
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4470 or 4263
Coptic calendar1488–1489
Discordian calendar2938
Ethiopian calendar1764–1765
Hebrew calendar5532–5533
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1828–1829
 - Shaka Samvat1693–1694
 - Kali Yuga4872–4873
Holocene calendar11772
Igbo calendar772–773
Iranian calendar1150–1151
Islamic calendar1185–1186
Japanese calendarMeiwa 9 / An'ei 1
(安永元年)
Javanese calendar1697–1698
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4105
Minguo calendar140 before ROC
民前140年
Nanakshahi calendar304
Thai solar calendar2314–2315
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1898 or 1517 or 745
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1899 or 1518 or 746
August 5: First Partition of Poland

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Date unknown

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Births

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William I of the Netherlands
 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deaths

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Emanuel Swedenborg
 
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

References

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