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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).

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Events of 1672

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1672

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.

July - December

★ August 20 - Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.

Undated

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

Births

★ 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 21 - Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1750)
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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, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, 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)
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