1772

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

1772 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1772 MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2525
Armenian calendar	1221 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6522
Balinese saka calendar	1693–1694
Bengali calendar	1179
Berber calendar	2722
British Regnal year	12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2316
Burmese calendar	1134
Byzantine calendar	7280–7281
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4468 or 4408     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4469 or 4409
Coptic calendar	1488–1489
Discordian calendar	2938
Ethiopian calendar	1764–1765
Hebrew calendar	5532–5533
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1828–1829
- Shaka Samvat	1693–1694
- Kali Yuga	4872–4873
Holocene calendar	11772
Igbo calendar	772–773
Iranian calendar	1150–1151
Islamic calendar	1185–1186
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 9 / An'ei 1 (安永元年)
Javanese calendar	1697–1698
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4105
Minguo calendar	140 before ROC 民前140年
Nanakshahi calendar	304
Thai solar calendar	2314–2315
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

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