King Gustav III of Sweden

In the year 1772, a group of white settlers in today’s Tennessee create the first non-colonial government body in British North America (May 8), the credit crisis of 1772 triggers financial panic and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy (Jun 10), the second voyage of James Cook departs from Plymouth (Jul 13), a coup d’état by King Gustav III ends half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden (Aug 21), Scottish scientist Daniel Rutherford discovers nitrogen, isolating it from air - and all these fine people were born:

1772-0104 Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut* jurist/musician - Hameln, Electrorate of Hanover (1840/68)

1772-0202 Jakob Johan Roth* decorated soldier - Ikaalinen, Sweden-Finland (1839/67)
1772-0209 Frans Michael Franzén* bishop/poet - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1847/75)
1772-0224 William H. Crawford* politician/judge - Amherst County, Virginia, British America (1834/62)

1772-0301 Feodor Kiseleff* Russian-Finnish merchant/ industrialist/ constructor - Hamina, Sweden-Finland (1847/75)

1772-0405 Domenico Puccini* composer/grandfather of Giacomo Puccini - Lucca, Tuscany, Italy (1815/43)
1772-0407 Charles Fourier* philosopher - Besançon, France (1837/65)

1772-0511 Adélaïde Victoire Hall* Swedish-French artist - Paris, France (1844/72)
1772-0520 William Congreve* inventor/rocket artillery pioneer - Kent, England (1828/55)

1772-0607 Aurora Liljenroth* pioneering scholar - Visingsö, Sweden (1836/63)
1772-0608 Robert Stevenson* civil engineer/designer and builder of lighthouses - Glasgow, Scotland (1850/78)

1772-0824 William I of the Netherlands* Prince of Orange/King of the Netherlands/Grand Duke of Luxembourg - The Haig, Dutch Republic (1843/71)
1772-0829 James Finlayson* engineer/founder of the Finlayson textile factory in Tampere, Finland - Glasgow, Scotland (1852/79)

1772-0915 Friedrich Konrad Hornemann* German explorer in Africa - Hildesheim, Holy Roman Empire (1801/28)

1772-1021 Samuel Taylor Coleridge* poet/essayist - Ottery St Mary, Devon, England (1834/61)

1772-1112 Charles Bassi* Italian-Finnish architect - Turin, Italy (1840/67)
1772-1123 Lars Hjortsberg* actor - Stockholm, Sweden (1843/70)

1772-1212 Elias Tuoriniemi* poet - Pyhäjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1840/67)
1772-1218 Juhana Uusikartano* preacher - Honkilahti, Sweden-Finland (1835/62)

Updated 24.3.2021
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