1672

This page relates to the year 1672 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • April 7th: Louis Buade de Frontenac becomes general governor of the News-France (1672 - 1682 and 1689 - 1698). It makes during ten years a policy of direct government and assimilation.
  • November: Jean Talon leaves definitively Quebec for health reasons.

  • With the Quebec, Mgr of Laval tackles the principle of the distributions of alcohols to the natives by the tradesmen and the runners of wood.

  • Population of the News-France: 6  700.
  • Population of the New England: 120  000.

Africa

  • Creation in England of the royal Company of Africa, which obtains the monopoly of the trade of the gold of Guinea.

  • Colony of the Cape: War of the Boers against the Hottentots, which are overcome (fine in 1677).

  • the white colonists of the Cape constitute themselves in military company (obligation of the military service and the annual drive for all the men from 16 to 60 years).

The Maghreb

  • April: Beginning of the reign of Mulay Ismaïl, king of the Morocco (fine in 1727).
    • Mulay Rachid dies after a fall of horse. His/her young brother Mulay Ismaïl will complete his work of reunification of the Morocco. He pacifies his kingdom at the price of bloody repressions. To maintain the order and to reconquer the cities occupied by Europeans, it constitutes an Arab militia ( guich of Ouadaïs ) and an army primarily made up of Sudanese, who reaches 150  000 men. With Meknès, its capital, it receives ambassadors, in particular of the France, England and Spain to bind commercial relations.
  • the English bombard Algiers.

Asia

  • Wu Sangui, viceroy of the Sichuan and the Yunnan, declines an invitation at the court of Beijing.

  • Revolt of the Afridi of Akmal Khan in Afghanistan against the Moghols (fine in 1675).
  • a French fleet appears in front of Ceylon. The attempt fails.

Europe

  • Rampjaar , the Year of Disaster for the Netherlands. The country is attacked is by the bishops of Münster and Cologne, of the south by the France and on the the North Sea by the England. In spite of his treaty with the republic Dutchwoman the king of England had signed a secret treaty with France “to reduce” the “arrogant” republic too much. Guillaume III ( William III ) of Orange carries out Dutch defense.

  • Conspiracy della Torre, with Genoa.

  • Turbid with Metz-native. Malvezzi (rich person anti-Spanish) are opposed to Merli (popular environments favorable to Madrid). Malvezzi call upon Louis XIV, then in war against the Spain (1674).

France

  • January 28th: Died of the chancellor Pierre Séguier, who opens the decline of the State of justice compared to the State of finance.
  • : Louvois, adviser
  • March 23rd: Heredity of the offices of notary, prosecutors, ushers, sergeants and archers.

  • marquis de Chamlay, chief of Staff during the campaigns of Flanders.

  • Sebastien Prestre de Vauban founds the regiments of the military Engineering French.

Religion

  • Declaration of Indulgence of Charles II of England.

  • Suppression of all the commercial privileges of the clergy in Russia.
  • Russia: Religious dissidents immolent themselves by fire with Nijni-Novgorod. These collective suicides are spread (37 cases until in 1691, more than 2000 victims).

Arts & culture

  • February 15th: Donneau de Visé founds with Paris the Gallant Mercure .

  • College of the Irishmen with Paris.
  • Reflections on the old and modern tragedy , test of Saint-Évremond.
  • Observations on the French language of Household.

See also: 1672 with the theater

  • the cabinetmaker Boulle succeeds Jean Macé as regular supplier of the Crown.

  • François Blondel builds the Porte Saint-Denis.
  • Lully buys with Perrin the privilege of the royal Académie of music. It obtains the monopoly of the musical representations thus.

Sciences & technology

  • the Astronome Jean-Dominique Cassini becomes the first director of the Observatoire of Paris and discovers the satellite of Saturn Rhéa. With the assistance of Jean Richer, it measures scientifically the distance Ground - Sun. He will be the father of the cartography of the kingdom.
  • Sir Isaac Newton is elected with the Royal Society.
  • Isaac Newton presents the telescope to reflection.
  • Leibniz creates a Calculating machine able to multiply, divide and extract the square roots.
  • the grenade becomes an important weapon. The first companies of pomegranates are made up in the French Army.

Economy & company

  • Bad harvests in Europe related to the coldness of the climate (1672 - 1677).
  • Increase in the fiscal charge related to the war until the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
  • Development of the French fleet: 120 ship of the lines (18 in 1661), 30 galères.
  • the French Army counts 120  000 men. Refunding of the “expenses of stages” caused by the regiments of passage in the provinces.
  • In England, the banking system is managed by the goldsmiths of London, who have safes. Exceed currency is locked up with the Tour of London. Charles Ier of England had benefitted from it to take a loan compulsory on the reserves, which shakes the credit of the goldsmiths. In 1672, Charles II of England cannot refund another loan, causing the bankruptcy of the goldsmiths.

Births in 1672

Death in 1672

Easter Day

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