[caption id=“attachment_3116” align=“alignnone” width=“3162”] Aerial view of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida[/caption]

In the year 1672, the Kingdom of England declares war on the Dutch Republic (Mar 17), France invades the Dutch Republic (Apr 29), Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are slaughtered by a mob in The Hague, Holland, accused of being responsible for major Dutch defeats of late (Aug 20), Spain begins the construction on the fort of Castillo de San Marcos in order to protect St. Augustine, Florida (Oct), Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith’s business which will survive through to the 21st century -  and all these fine people were born:

1672-xxxx Juho Jaakonpoika Pietilä** father of Liisa Juhontytär Rinta-Nikkola - Pietilä farm, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1736/64) 1672-0104 Hugh Boulter* Archbishop of Armagh (Ireland) - London, England (1742/70) 1672-0118 Antoine Houdar de la Motte* author - Paris, France (1731/59) 1672-0213 Étienne François Geoffroy* physician/ chemist/known for his affinity tables - Paris, France (1731/58) 1672-0217 Zacharias Lithovius* vicar/poet (best known for his 1718 elegy on behalf of Charles XII of Sweden) - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1743/71) 1672-0312 Richard Steele (B) writer/playwright/politician - Dublin, Ireland (1729/57) 1672-0319 Johan Moraeus* mountain physician/father-in-law of  Carl von Linné - Falu Kristine, Swedish Empire (1742/70) 1672-0402 Charles Bridges (B) painter/ missionary - Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England (1747/75) 1672-0406 André Cardinal Destouches (B) composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1749/76) 1672-0422 Gregorius Arctopolitanus* vicar/poet - Pori, Finland, Swedish Empire (1745/72) 1672-0501 Joseph Addison* essayist/playwright/politician - Milston, Wiltshire, England (1719/48) 1672-0522 Carl Cronstedt* nobleman/the last surviving general of Charles XII of Sweden - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1750/78) 1672-0609 Peter the Great* ruler of the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire - Moscow, Tsardom of Russia (1725/52) 1672-0718 Herman Ross* theology professor/politician - Vaasa, Finland, Swedish Empire (1726/54) 1672-0802 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer* scholar - Zürich, Switzerland (1733/60) 1672-0908 Nicolas de Grigny (B) organist/composer - Reims, France (1703/31) 1672-1011 Pylyp Orlyk* Ukrainian Cossack starshina/diplomat - Kosuta, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1742/59) 1672-1021 Ludovico Antonio Muratori* scholar/ historian - Vignola, Italy (1750/) Updated 4.4.2023-1 Search for another year here