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Everything about 1672 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1672
January - June
July - December
August 20 - Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
October - Spain begins construction on the masonry fort that will become Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida
Ongoing
Polish-Ottoman War (1672–1676)
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 11 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
October 21 - Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1750)
Deaths
January 15 - John Cosin, English clergyman (born 1594)
February 19 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (born 1592)
March - Archibald Armstrong, court jester to James I of England and Charles I of England (year of birth unknown)
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)Further Information
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