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Events from the year
1772 Events January–March * January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee. * January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Carolin ...
in Great Britain.


Incumbents

* Monarch – George III * Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North ( Tory)


Events

* 24 March – Royal Marriages Act 1772 requires the monarch's consent for the marriage of all members of the royal family. * 28 May –
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands. It is long, linking the River Severn at Stourport in Worcestershire with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Haywoo ...
open for traffic throughout from a junction with the
Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middle ...
to the River Severn at
Stourport Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and downstream on the River Severn from Bewdley. At the 2011 ce ...
. Engineered by James Brindley, this is the first British trunk canal completed and its dimensions determine the size of boat used throughout the narrow canal network ( by ). * 10 June – credit crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of
Neal, James, Fordyce and Down Neale, James, Fordyce and Downe was a London banking house, established in 1757 by Henry Neale, William James, Alexander Fordyce and Richard Downe. Its collapse in June 1772 precipitated a major banking crisis which included the collapse of almos ...
(which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks, particularly in Scotland, to fail, extends to Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy. * 22 June – Somersett's Case: Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice delivers the decision that slavery is not supported by the common law of England. * 13 July – navigator
James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
sets out from
Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...
on HMS ''Resolution'' for a second Pacific voyage. * 12 September – Daniel Rutherford demonstrates the method of distinguishing nitrogen from other gases. * 21 September – Birmingham Canal Navigations main line open for traffic, linking Birmingham to the River Severn via the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. * 2 November – '' The Morning Post'' newspaper published for the first time. * An appeal delivered in Norwich Cathedral for the newly-founded Norfolk and Norwich Hospital is the origin of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.


Births

* 19 April – David Ricardo, economist (died 1823) * 22 April – George Cockburn, naval commander (died 1853) * 20 May – William Congreve, rocket pioneer (died 1828) * 8 June –
Robert Stevenson Robert Stevenson may refer to: * Robert Stevenson (actor and politician) (1915–1975), American actor and politician * Robert Stevenson (civil engineer) (1772–1850), Scottish lighthouse engineer * Robert Stevenson (director) (1905–1986), Engl ...
, Scottish lighthouse engineer (died 1850) * 21 October – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher, (died 1834)


Deaths

* 8 February –
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( – 8 February 1772) was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick predeceased his father ...
, Princess of Wales (born 1719) * 22 March – John Canton, physicist (born 1718) * 31 August – William Borlase, Cornish antiquary and naturalist (born 1695) * 30 September – James Brindley, canal builder (born 1716)


See also

*
1772 in Wales This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people. Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan of Rh ...


References

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