Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1772
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Literature
- ??? Diderot publishes the last of 280 ??? volumes of the
Encyclopédie
- ??? Herder, On the Origin of Language
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins writing Dialogues: Rousseau juge de
Jean-Jacques
Theatre
- September 4: Elizabeth Inchbald's debut in Shakespeare's King
Lear, as Cordelia to her husband Joseph Inchbald's Lear
Art
- William Blake apprenticed to James Basire
- Thomas Rowlandson studies painting at the Royal Academy
- Johann Zoffany travels to Italy (through 1778)
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Joseph Priestley and Daniel Rutgerford discover nitrogen
independently
Politics & Law
- William Murray, Britain's Lord Chief Justice, rules in the
Somersett case that "as soon as any slave sets foot in England he
becomes free."
- First Partition of Poland
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
- Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Miscellaneous
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