Historical Events in 1672
- Jan 1 Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
- Feb 8 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
- Feb 23 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
- Mar 15 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
- Apr 6 France declares war on Netherlands
- Apr 29 Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
- May 2 John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- May 6 Brandenburg monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
- May 15 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
- May 17 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)
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Peter the GreatWorld Leaders in 1672
Charles II
King of England- Louis XIV
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Charles II
Louis XIVFamous People Who Died in 1672
- Jan 15 John Cosin, English clergyman, dies at 77
- Jan 28 Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France, dies at 83
- Feb 19 Charles Chauncy, American clergyman and President of Harvard College (1654-72), dies at 79
- Apr 22 Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish scholar & poet often known as "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules), dies at 73
- May 5 Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
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