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What Happened In History Year 1672

Historical Events for the Year 1672

  • 15th March » Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
  • 2nd May » John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale called John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
  • 11th May » Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
  • 20th August » Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt named Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.

Famous Birthdays in 1672

  • 4th January » Hugh Boulter, English-Irish archbishop (d. 1742)
  • 13th February » Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
  • 26th February » Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (d. 1757)
  • 12th March » Richard Steele, Irish journalist and politician (d. 1729)
  • 21st March » Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (d. 1742)
  • 6th April » André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (d. 1749)
  • 1st May » Joseph Addison, English journalist and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (d. 1719)
  • 9th June » Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
  • 11th June » Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
  • 13th June » Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
  • 2nd August » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733)
  • 8th September » Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
  • 11th October » Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (d. 1742)
  • 21st December » Benjamin Schmolck, German deacon and composer (d. 1737)

Famous Deaths in History for 1672

  • 15th January » John Cosin, English bishop and academic (b. 1594)
  • 28th January » Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
  • 19th February » Charles Chauncy, English-American academic (b. 1592)
  • 2nd April » Pedro Calungsod named Saint Pedro Calungsod, Filipino missionary and saint (b. 1654)
  • 22nd April » Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598)
  • 30th April » Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline) or Marie of the Incarnation, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Ursulines of Quebec (b. 1599)
  • 5th May » Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
  • 11th May » Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish politician (b. 1615)
  • 28th May » John Trevor (1626–1672) e.g John Trevor, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1626)
  • 27th June » Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (b. 1597)
  • 3rd July » Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
  • 20th August » Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
  • 20th August » Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
  • 16th September » Anne Bradstreet, English-American poet (b. 1612)
  • 24th October » John Webb (architect) known as John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
  • 6th November » Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (b. 1585)
  • 7th December » Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th List of colonial governors of Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1629–86, 1689–92 known as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)

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