1672

Year 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

March - The Synod of Jerusalem brings together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.
March 12 - England, France, Münster and Cologne begin their invasion of the United Provinces. 1672 becomes known as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands.
March 15 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
May 2 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
June 12 - French forces under king Louis XIV cross the Rhine into the Netherlands.
June 28 - William III of Orange is appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht.

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.

1672 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1672
MDCLXXII
Ab urbe condita 2425
Armenian calendar 1121
ԹՎ ՌՃԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar -172 – -171
Berber calendar 2622
Buddhist calendar 2216
Burmese calendar 1034
Byzantine calendar 7180 – 7181
Chinese calendar 辛亥年十二月初二日
(4308/4368-12-2)

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壬子年十一月十三日
(4309/4369-11-13)
Coptic calendar 1388 – 1389
Ethiopian calendar 1664 – 1665
Hebrew calendar 5432 – 5433
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1727 – 1728
- Shaka Samvat 1594 – 1595
- Kali Yuga 4773 – 4774
Holocene calendar 11672
Iranian calendar 1050 – 1051
Islamic calendar 1082 – 1083
Japanese calendar Kanbun 11
(寛文11年)
Korean calendar 4005
Thai solar calendar 2215

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)

January 15 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
February 19 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 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 (b. 1598)
May 5 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
May 8 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
May 11 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
May 28 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
June 27 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (b. 1597)
July 3 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
August 20 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
August 20 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial writer (b. c. 1612)
October 24 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
November 6 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
November 19 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
December 6 - King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
December 7 - Richard Bellingham, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
date unknown - Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (b. 1603)