1752

This article is about the year 1752.

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

1752 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1752 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1752 MDCCLII
Ab urbe condita	2505
Armenian calendar	1201 ԹՎ ՌՄԱ
Assyrian calendar	6502
Bahá'í calendar	-92–-91
Bengali calendar	1159
Berber calendar	2702
British Regnal year	25 Geo. 2 – 26 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2296
Burmese calendar	1114
Byzantine calendar	7260–7261
Chinese calendar	辛未年十一月十五日 (4388/4448-11-15) — to — 壬申年十一月廿六日 (4389/4449-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1468–1469
Ethiopian calendar	1744–1745
Hebrew calendar	5512–5513
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1808–1809
- Shaka Samvat	1674–1675
- Kali Yuga	4853–4854
Holocene calendar	11752
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	752–753
Iranian calendar	1130–1131
Islamic calendar	1165–1166
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 2 (宝暦2年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4085
Minguo calendar	160 before ROC 民前160年
Thai solar calendar	2295

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 the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days, as September 3 through September 13 were skipped.

Events

A Julian year was 11 days longer than a Gregorian year. So, the King of England, George II, ordered 11 days to be wiped off the face of that particular month. So, the workers worked for 11 days less that month, but got paid for the whole month. http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/br1752a.html

In the Roman Julian Calendar, April used to be the first month of the year; but the Gregorian Calendar observed January as the first month. Even after shifting to the Gregorian Calendar, many people refused to give up old traditions and continued celebrating 1st April as the New Year's Day. When simple orders didn't work, the King finally issued a royal dictum which stated that those who celebrated 1st April as the new year's day would be labelled as fools. From then on, 1st April became April Fool's Day. This view has been questioned. .

January–June

• 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.
• February 27 – The Virginia Assembly passes a law making maiming a felony, in response to the practice of gouging.
• 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.

July–December

• September 2 – Great Britain and the British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, meaning the Julian date of Wednesday, September 2 was followed by the Gregorian date of Thursday, September 14.

Date unknown

• 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

Births

• 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 12 – Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821)
• February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
• February 23 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian writer (d. 1819)
• 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 19 – George Rogers Clark, American soldier and officer (d. 1818)
• November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (d. 1770)
• November 29 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
• December 21 – Jean-François Houbigant, French perfumer (d. 1807)

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 (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 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (b. 1687)
• November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
• November 6 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
• date unknown – Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (b. 1675)

References

• Brainy History – 1752 in History