Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1672

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Literature

Theatre

John Dryden, Marriage a la Mode
Drury Lane burns down

Art

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

The root impecacuanha is first used medicinally

Politics & Law

The Royal Africa Company receives a monopoly on the English slave trade
The Dutch open the dikes to flood Amsterdam, to keep it from French control

Philosophy & Theology

John Milton, The Art of Logic

Milestones

Birth of Joseph Addison
Birth of Richard Steele

Miscellaneous

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