Editing 1772 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Shah Alam II]], the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to [[Delhi]] 15 years after having been forced to flee.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=From Miniatures to Monuments: Picturing Shah Alam's Delhi (1771-1806)|first=Yuthika|last=Sharma|title=Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition|editor=Patel, Alka |editor2=Leonard, Karen |publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|year=2012|page=111}}</ref> 
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Struensee]] and Queen [[Caroline Matilda of Great Britain|Caroline Matilda]] are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from [[Denmark]].
* [[February 12]]
** [[Bretons|Breton]]-French explorer [[Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec]] discovers the uninhabited [[Kerguelen Islands]] in the Southern Indian Ocean.
** The [[Virginia General Assembly|Virginia Assembly]] amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of [[Gouging (fighting style)|gouging]].<ref name="Hening">{{cite web|url=http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol08-25.htm|title=Hening's Statutes at Large|first=William Walter|last=Hening|access-date=2011-04-09}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; The [[First Partition of Poland]] is agreed to by [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and [[Prussia]], later including [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Biela's Comet]] is first discovered by French astronomer Jacques Leibax Montaigne, but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when [[Wilhelm von Biela]] correctly identifies its return.<ref>{{cite book|first=George Frederick|last=Chambers|title=A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofdescri00chamrich|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1877|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofdescri00chamrich/page/299 299]}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Pedro Fages]], the Spanish Governor of [[Alta California]], and [[Juan Crespí]], a Catholic priest, set off from the capital at [[Monterey, California|Monterey]] with a party of 12 soldiers and begin the first European exploration of the lands around [[San Francisco Bay]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Camino Real: California's Mission Trail|first=W. Michael|last=Mathes|title=Pioneer Trails West|publisher=Caxton Press|year=1985|page=82}}</ref>