1752
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| Years: 1749 1750 1751 - 1752 - 1753 1754 1755 | |
| Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century | |
1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, is opened.
- March 23 - The Halifax Gazette, the first Canadian newspaper
- June 15 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning)
- September 14 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)
- Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow transfers to professor of moral philosophy
- English Scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse
Births
- January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (d. 1836)
- January 23 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (d. 1815)
- February 17 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
- February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
- May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
- June 13 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
- July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
- August 13 - Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily (d. 1814)
- September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
- November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (d. 1770)
- November 29 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
- Humphry Repton, English garden designer (d. 1818)
- John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
- Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
Deaths
- June 16 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
- June 16 - Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (b. 1692)
- July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
- Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
- Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (b. 1675)
- Michael Festing, English violinist and composer (b. 1680)
- Jean Francois de Troy, French painter (b. 1679)
- Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
Various calendars
| Most of Europe | Britain & Cols | Russia[?] | |||||||
| Saturday | 1 January 1752 | 21 December 1751 | 21 December 1751 | ||||||
| Wednesday | 12 January 1752 | 1 January 1752 | 1 January 1751 | ||||||
| Tuesday | 4 April 1752 | 24 March 1752 | 24 March 1751 | ||||||
| Wednesday | 5 April 1752 | 25 March 1752 | 25 March 1752 | ||||||
| Wednesday | 13 September 1752 | 2 September 1752 | 2 September 1752 | ||||||
| Thursday | 14 September 1752 | 14 September 1752 | 3 September 1752 |
External link
Brainy History - 1752 in History (http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1752.html)af:1752 ast:1752 bg:1752 ca:1752 cs:1752 cy:1752 da:1752 de:1752 et:1752 el:1752 es:1752 eo:1752 eu:1752 fr:1752 gl:1752 ko:1752년 hr:1752 io:1752 id:1752 is:1752 it:1752 he:1752 lb:1752 hu:1752 mi:1752 nl:1752 nb:1752 nn:1752 os:1752 pl:1752 pt:1752 ro:1752 ru:1752 sk:1752 sl:1752 sr:1752 fi:1752 sv:1752 tt:1752 tr:1752 uk:1752 zh:1752年