15th March » Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
2nd May » John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale called John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
11th May » Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
20th August » Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt named Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
Famous Birthdays in 1672
4th January » Hugh Boulter, English-Irish archbishop (d. 1742)
13th February » Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
26th February » Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (d. 1757)
12th March » Richard Steele, Irish journalist and politician (d. 1729)
21st March » Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (d. 1742)
6th April » André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (d. 1749)
1st May » Joseph Addison, English journalist and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (d. 1719)
9th June » Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
11th June » Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
13th June » Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
2nd August » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733)
8th September » Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
11th October » Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (d. 1742)
21st December » Benjamin Schmolck, German deacon and composer (d. 1737)
Famous Deaths in History for 1672
15th January » John Cosin, English bishop and academic (b. 1594)
28th January » Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
19th February » Charles Chauncy, English-American academic (b. 1592)
2nd April » Pedro Calungsod named Saint Pedro Calungsod, Filipino missionary and saint (b. 1654)
22nd April » Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598)
30th April » Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline) or Marie of the Incarnation, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Ursulines of Quebec (b. 1599)
5th May » Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
11th May » Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish politician (b. 1615)
28th May » John Trevor (1626–1672) e.g John Trevor, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1626)
27th June » Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (b. 1597)
3rd July » Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
20th August » Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
20th August » Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
16th September » Anne Bradstreet, English-American poet (b. 1612)
24th October » John Webb (architect) known as John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
6th November » Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (b. 1585)
7th December » Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th List of colonial governors of Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1629–86, 1689–92 known as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)