1752

Years:
1749 1750 1751 – 1752 – 1753 1754 1755

Decades:
1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s

Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century

1752 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

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

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 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)

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