Editing 1672 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] is appointed [[Stadtholder]] of [[Holland]] and [[Zeeland]].
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Johan de Witt]], [[Grand Pensionary]] of [[Holland]] and his brother [[Cornelis de Witt]] are killed by an Orangist mob in [[The Hague]].
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[William III of Orange]], Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dismisses nine of the [[regenten]] who lead cities in the Netherlands, after being granted authority by the States-General.  
* [[September 15]] &ndash; In India, Admiral [[Mai Nayak Bhandari]] of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] captures the island of [[Khanderi]].
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The [[President of the Board of Trade#History|Board of Trade]] is created in England by a merger of the Council of Trade and the Council of Foreign Plantations, both of which had been created by King Charles II in 1660, under the name The Board of Trade and Plantations. The [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury|Earl of Shaftesbury]] is appointed as the first Lord of Trade, administering the Board until its dissolution in 1676.
* [[September 26]] &ndash; General [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]], commander of the army of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], joins forces with the Brandenburg troops commanded by [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]] and the two groups assemble at [[Halberstadt]], to attack the French and the bishops of [[Münster]] and [[Cologne]].<ref>Olaf van Nimwegen, ''The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688'' (Boydell Press, 2010) p. 448</ref>