Centuries:
17th century -
18th century -
19th century
Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
Years: 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782
Events
Births
- January 2, Christian Daniel Rauch[?], sculptor (+ 1857)
- February 12, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, poet (+ 1843)
- March 17 - Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1864)
- April 12, Henry Clay, american statesman (+ 1852)
- April 30, Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- December 4, Madame Récamier[?], writer
- December 23 - Emperor Alexander I of Russia
- Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist
Deaths