1672

1672 (MDCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1672nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 672nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1672, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1669 1670 1671 – 1672 – 1673 1674 1675

1672 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1672 MDCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2425
Armenian calendar	1121 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6422
Balinese saka calendar	1593–1594
Bengali calendar	1079
Berber calendar	2622
English Regnal year	23 Cha. 2 – 24 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2216
Burmese calendar	1034
Byzantine calendar	7180–7181
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4368 or 4308     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4369 or 4309
Coptic calendar	1388–1389
Discordian calendar	2838
Ethiopian calendar	1664–1665
Hebrew calendar	5432–5433
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1728–1729
- Shaka Samvat	1593–1594
- Kali Yuga	4772–4773
Holocene calendar	11672
Igbo calendar	672–673
Iranian calendar	1050–1051
Islamic calendar	1082–1083
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 11 (寛文１１年)
Javanese calendar	1594–1595
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4005
Minguo calendar	240 before ROC 民前240年
Nanakshahi calendar	204
Thai solar calendar	2214–2215
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1798 or 1417 or 645     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1799 or 1418 or 646

Events

• March 15 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
• May 2 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
• June 12 – French forces under king Louis XIV cross the Rhine to Netherlands
• June 28 – William III of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht.
• August 20 – Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.
• England, France, Münster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is known as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands.

Births

• May 1 – Joseph Addison, writer and essayist