1752
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1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Contents
Events
- 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
- A fire in Moscow destroys 18,000 houses
January
February
- February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, is opened.
March
- March 23 - The Halifax Gazette, the first Canadian newspaper
April
May
June
- June 6 - Fire destroys part of Moscow
- June 15 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity using a kite and a key.
July
August
September
- September 14, Gregorian Calendar - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)
October
November
December
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
- January 4 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
- January 16 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
- February 9 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
- May 3 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland
- May 23 - William Bradford, British-born printer (b. 1663)
- 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)
- July 29 - Peter Warren, British admiral
- August 22 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
- November 5 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
- November 6 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
- Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (b. 1675)
- Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
- Old Briton, Piankashaw chieftain
- William Street, famous surveyor (b. 1675)
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 |
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