1752

	1752 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Countries: Canada – Great Britain –
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	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1749 1750 1751 – 1752 – 1753 1754 1755

Year 1752 (MDCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In Great Britain and the British Empire it began as a Julian year but was switched to a Gregorian year in September; in those countries the dates between September 3 and 13 (inclusive) did not occur.

[edit] Events of 1752

January 1 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar (to take effect in September).
February 11 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the U.S., is opened.
March 23 – The Halifax Gazette, the first Canadian newspaper, is published.
June 6 – Fire destroys 18,000 houses in Moscow.
June 15 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity, using a kite and a key.

Adam Smith transfers to professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
English scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse^[1]

January 1 – Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (d. 1836)
January 2 – Philip Morin Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
January 18 – John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
January 23 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist (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)
April 21 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer (d. 1818)
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)

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 (b. 1694)
May 23 – William Bradford, British-born printer (b. 1663)
June 16
- Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (b. 1664)
- Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (b. 1692)
June 21 – Old Briton, Piankashaw chieftain
July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
July 29 – Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703)
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)
date unknown – Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (born 1675)