1772 - 1772 Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s Years: 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 - 1772 - 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of states Events February 17 - First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria November 2 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence. Births March 10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829) April 7 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (+ 1837) April 19 - David Ricardo, British Ecnonomist (+ 1823) May 2 - Novalis, German poet (+ 1801) May 20 -.
1772 in literature - 1772 in literature See also: 1771 in literature, other events of 1772, 1773 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books France's Encyclopédie, in 28 volumes The Daft Days - Robert Fergusson The Fashionable Lover (play) - Richard Cumberland Births October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Deaths Awards.
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt - where his behaviour was no less objectionable than elsewhere, he gave a handle to his enemies by a change in his public attitude towards religion. The climax came with the publication of his Neueste Offenbarungen Gottes in Briefen und Erzählungen (1773-1775), purporting to be a "model version" of the New Testament, rendered, with due regard to enlightenment, into modern German. The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt’s expulsion from Giessen. He was lucky enough at once to find a post as principal of the educational institution established in his château at Marschlins by the Swiss statesman Ulysses von Salis (1728-1800). The school had languished since the death of its founder and first head, Martin Planta (1727-1772), and.
Karsten Niebuhr - now the only surviving member of the expedition. He stayed fourteen months at Bombay, and then returned home by Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz and Persepolis, visited the ruins of Babylon, and thence went to Bagdad, Mosul and Aleppo. After a visit to Cyprus he made a tour through Palestine, crossing the Taurus Mountains to Brussa, reaching Constantinople in February 1767 and Copenhagen in the following November. He married in 1773, and for some years held a post in the Danish military service which enabled him to reside at Copenhagen. In 1778, however, he accepted a position in the civil service of Holstein, and went to reside at Meldorf, where he died in 1815. Niebuhr was an accurate and careful observer, had the instincts of the scholar, was animated by a high moral.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel - the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 11, 1829), German poet, critic and scholar, was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel. He was born at Hanover. He studied law at Göttingen and Leipzig, but ultimately devoted himself entirely to literary studies. He published in 1797 the important book Die Griechen und Römer, which was followed by the suggestive Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Römer (1798). At Jena, where he lectured as a Privatdozent at the university, he contributed to the Athenaeum the aphorisms and essays in which the principles of the Romantic school are most definitely stated. Here also he wrote Lucinde (1799), an unfinished romance, which is interesting as an attempt to transfer to practical ethics the Romantic demand for.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel - he lost his father at the age of six in Neuruppin's disastrous fire. He became a student of Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800) (the two became close friends) and his father, David Gilly, in Berlin. After studying in Italy, he returned to Berlin in 1805, which by then had been occupied by the troops of Napoleon I of France. After France's defeat, Schinkel oversaw the Prussian Building Commission. In this position, he was not only reponsible for reshaping the (still relatively unspectacular) Berlin into a representative capital for Prussia, but also oversaw projects in the Prussian territories spanning from the Rhine lands in the West to Königsberg in the East. Old Museum (June 2003). Schinkel's style, in his most productive period, is defined by a return to classical Greek architecture, probably in an.
Kalisz Voivodship - Kalisiensis), Polish: województwo kaliskie) was an administrative unit of Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772. Part of Greater Poland province. See also: Voivodships of Poland.
Kerguelen Islands - km². The climate is cold, very windy and the seas are usually rough. The islands belong to France, and were discovered by Yves Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec in February 1772. The archipelago was exploited for its seal population until their destruction, fur seals in the 18th century and elephant seals in the early 20th century. A number of expeditions have briefly touched the islands, including that of James Cook in 1776. Kerguelen has been used by a small number of science teams since 1949, with a population of 50-100 always present. There is also a satellite tracking station. The main island is also home to a well established feral cat population descended from ships' cats. They survive on sea birds and introduced rabbits. The main base is located at the eastern end.
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - (1760) Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, Lord Privy Seal (1760) Prince William Henry, younger brother of King George III (1762) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (1762) Duke Adolf Frederick IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, brother-in-law of King George III (1771) George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Privy Seal (app 1764, never installed) George, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King George III, later King (1771) Charles William Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, brother-in-law of King George III (1771) George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (1771) Prince Henry Frederick, younger brother of the King (1771) George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1771) Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister (1771) Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham, Lord President (1771) Prince Frederick Augustus, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, second.
Kristianstad County - von Hylteen (1719-1738) Nils Silfverskiöld (1739-1745) Christian Barnekow (1745-1761) Carl Axel Hugo Hamilton (1761-1763) Reinhold Johan von Lingen (1763-1772) Axel Löwen (1773-1776) Gabriel Erik Sparre (1776-1786) Carl Adam Wrangel (1786-1803) Eric von Nolcken (1803-1811) Axel de la Gardie (1811-1838) Georg Ludvig von Rosen (1838-1851) Knut Axel Posse (1852-1856) Emil von Troil (1856-1859) Axel Ludvig Rappe (1860-1866) Axel Trolle-Wachtmeister (1866-1883) Magnus de la Gardie (1883-1905) Louis de Geer (1905-1923) Johan Nilsson (1923-1938) Alvar Elis Rodhe (1938-1947) Per Westling (1947-1963) Bengt Petri (1964-1979) Lennart Sandgren (1979-1984) Einar Larsson (1985-1989) Anita Bråkenhielm (1990-1996) Hans Blom (1996) See also: List of Skåne Governors, County Governors of Sweden, Scania, Terra Scania.
Krakow Voivodship - division and local government in Poland in years 1921-1939. Capital city: Krakow Krakow Voivodship (4) (Latin: Palatinatus Cracoviensis, Polish: województwo krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772. Part of Little Poland province. See also: Voivodships of Poland.
James Cook - Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 First Voyage (1768-1771) 3 Second Voyage (1772-1775) 4 Third Voyage (1776-1779) 5.
January 29 - Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill. 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles. 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire. 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. Births 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist and.
James Brindley - James Brindley James Brindley (1716-1772) was an English Engineer. He was born in Thornsett, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire. Brindley received little formal education and was practically illiterate, this however didn't stop him from becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century. Biography Born into humble circumstances and receiving little education, at age 17, Brindley was apprenticed to a millwright near Macclesfield. Having completed his apprenticeship he set up business for himself as a wheelwright in Leek. He soon established a reputation for ingenuity and skill at repairing many different kinds of machinery. In 1752 he designed and built an engine for draining some coal-pits at Clifton in Lancashire. Three years later he built a machine for a silk-mill at Congleton. His reputation.
Jacob Frank - heads of the community. The Anti-Talmudists succeeded in obtaining from Augustus III of Poland, (1733-1763) an edict guaranteeing them safety; but even this did not avail to free them from the unfortunate position of men who, having parted from their coreligionists, had not yet succeeded in identifying themselves with another faith. Declaration of being a succesor to Shabbethai Zevi At this critical moment Jacob Frank came to Iwania (Podolia) with a new project; he posed as a direct successor of Shabbethai Zevi and Osman Baba, and assured his adherents that he had received revelations from Heaven. These revelations called for the conversion of Frank and his followers to the Christian religion, which was to be a visible transition stage to the future "Messianic religion." In 1759 negotiations looking toward the conversion.
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - made a fortune in shipping and in 1750 he acquired the Chateau Chaumont as a country home where he established a glassmaking and earthenware factory. In 1772 Le Ray signed a contract with the renowned Italian sculptor Jean-Baptiste Nini to oversee his factories and set up the production of portrait medallions: a sculpture in miniature done in terracotta usually for the very wealthy and European Royalty. Jacques-Donatien Le Ray served King Louis XVI at the Court at Versailles as the Governor of Les Invalides in Paris and the Grand Master of Waters and Lands of Blois. Following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain by the American colonies on July 4, 1776, emissaries were dispatched to France by the new United States revolutionary government to seek assistance from the French king..
Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten - project of a revolution against their common enemies, the "Caps." It was to begin in Finland where Sprengtporten’s regiment the Nyland dragoons, was stationed. He undertook to seize the impregnable fortress of Sveaborg by a coup de main. The submission of the whole grand duchy would be the natural consequence of such a success, and, Finland once secured, Sprengtporten proposed at the head of his Finns to embark for Sweden, meet the king and his friends near Stockholm, and surprise the capital by a night attack. This plan, subsequently enlarged by a suggestion of a fellow plotter, Johan Kristoffer Toll, was warmly approved of by the king. On July 22, 1772 Sprengtporten left Stockholm. On August 9 he reached Helsingfors. On the 16th he persuaded the fortress of Sveaborg to submit.
Jacques Cazotte - tales, such as his Mille et unefadaises, Contes a dormir debout (1742). His first success was with a "poem" in twelve cantos, and in prose intermixed with verse, entitled Ollivier (2 vols, 1762), followed in 1771 by another romance, the Lord Impromptu. But the most popular of his works was the Diable amoureux (1772), a fantastic tale in which the hero raises the devil. The value of the story lies in the picturesque setting, and the skill with which its details are carried out. Cazotte possessed extreme facility and is said to have turned off a seventh canto of Voltaire's Guerre civile de Genève in a single night. About 1775 Cazotte embraced the views of the Illuminati, declaring himself possessed of the power of prophecy. It was upon this fact that.
Jacob Emden - town and took refuge in Amsterdam (May 1751), where he had many friends and where he joined the household of his brother-in-law, Aryeh Löb b. Saul, rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. Emden's cause was subsequently taken up by the court of King Frederick of Denmark, and on June 3, 1752, a judgment was given in favor of Emden, severely censuring the council of the three communities and condemning them to a fine of one hundred thalers. Emden then returned to Altona and took possession of his synagogue and printing-establishment, though he was forbidden to continue his agitation against Eybeschütz. The latter's partizans, however, did not desist from their warfare against Emden. They accused him before the authorities of continuing to publish denunciations against his opponent. One Friday evening (July 8, 1755).
Jacques Lelong - continue it; but it was resumed by Charles-Marie Fevret de Fontette, a councillor of the parlement of Dijon, who spent fifteen years of his life and a great deal of money in rewriting the Bibliothèque historique. The first two volumes (1768 and 1769) contained as many as 29,143 items. Fevret de Fontette died on February 16 1772, leaving the third volume almost finished. It appeared in 1772, thanks to Barbaud de La Bruyère, who later brought out the 4th and 5th volumes (1775 and 1778). In this new edition the Bibliothèque historique is a work of reference of the highest order; it is still of great value. Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
