What is 1772?
{{Year nav|1772}} {{Year in various calendars|1772}} {{Year article header|1772}} == Events == *King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] makes a new [[constitution]] in Sweden, and gains total power. *[[Marquis de Sade]] sentenced to death. == Births == *[[May 20]]-Sir [[William Congreve]], English inventor. *[[August 24]] – King [[William I of the Netherlands]] == Deaths == *[[March 29]] – [[Emanuel Swedenborg]], Swedish thinker and mathematician [[Category:1772| ]]