1752

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century 18th century 19th century
Decades:	1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years:	1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755

1752 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1752 MDCCLII
Ab urbe condita	2505
Armenian calendar	1201 ԹՎ ՌՄԱ
Assyrian calendar	6502
Balinese saka calendar	1673–1674
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 (Metal Goat) 4449 or 4242     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4450 or 4243
Coptic calendar	1468–1469
Discordian calendar	2918
Ethiopian calendar	1744–1745
Hebrew calendar	5512–5513
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1808–1809
- Shaka Samvat	1673–1674
- Kali Yuga	4852–4853
Holocene calendar	11752
Igbo calendar	752–753
Iranian calendar	1130–1131
Islamic calendar	1165–1166
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 2 (宝暦２年)
Javanese calendar	1677–1678
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4085
Minguo calendar	160 before ROC 民前160年
Nanakshahi calendar	284
Thai solar calendar	2294–2295
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1878 or 1497 or 725     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1879 or 1498 or 726

1752 (MDCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1752nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 752nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1752, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days, as 3-13 September were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 30 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar (to take effect in September).
• February 11 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened.
• February 27 – The Virginia Assembly passes a law making maiming a felony, in response to the practice of gouging.
• February 29 – Alaungpaya, a village chief in Upper Burma, founds the Konbaung Dynasty; by the time of his death 8 years later, he will have unified the whole country.
• 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 by his kite experiment.

July–December

• September 14 – Great Britain and the British Empire adopt the Gregorian calendar, meaning the Julian date of Wednesday, September 2 is followed by the Gregorian date of Thursday, September 14.
• September–December – Jovan Šević leads a group of Serb emigrants from Pomorišje to Kiev.

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
  • Nicholas Owen, Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1811)
  • Philip Morin Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
• January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (d. 1809)
• January 4
  • David Hall, American judge (d. 1817)
  • Harry Innes, United States federal judge (d. 1816)
• January 6 – Pierre Bouchet, French physician (d. 1794)
• January 10 – Laurent Jean François Truguet, French admiral (d. 1839)
• January 12 – George Baylor, officer in the Continental Army (d. 1784)
• January 13
  • Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (d. 1799)
  • Sir Philip Anstruther-Paterson, 3rd Baronet, Scottish politician (d. 1808)
• January 16
  • John Davenport, American politician (d. 1830)
  • Nicolas-François Guillard, French librettist (d. 1814)
• January 17 – William Stephens, United States federal judge (d. 1819)
• January 18
  • Alexander Kurakin, Russian diplomat (d. 1818)
  • John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
  • Francesco Caracciolo, admiral and revolutionist (d. 1799)
  • Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, British Army general (d. 1825)
  • Louis Dufresne, French ornithologist and taxidermist (d. 1832)
• January 19 – James Morris III, Continental Army officer from Connecticut (d. 1820)
• January 20 – Jean-Baptiste Radet, French playwright (d. 1830)
• January 22
  • Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington (d. 1838)
  • William Lewis, American politician (d. 1819)
• January 24 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist (d. 1832)
• January 25 – Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (d. 1829)
• January 29
  • Pierre Martin, French Navy officer and admiral (d. 1820)
  • John Macleod, British Army general (d. 1833)
• January 31 – Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (d. 1815)
• February 4 – Gerrit Paape, Dutch politician and writer (d. 1803)
• February 5
  • Anton Walter, Austrian piano maker (d. 1826)
  • Samuel Phillips, Jr., Massachusetts lieutenant governor (d. 1802)
• February 8 – Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French general and politician (d. 1812)
• February 9
  • Ebenezer Sproat, Continental Army officer, pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1805)
  • George Handley, American politician (d. 1793)
• February 12
  • John Smith, American politician (d. 1816)
  • Josef Reicha (d. 1795)
  • Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821)
• February 13
  • Luise von Göchhausen (d. 1807)
  • Giovanni Fabbroni, Italian scientist (d. 1822)
• February 16 – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe, Austrian general (d. 1814)
• February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
• February 19 – Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri (d. 1829)
• February 19 – Simone Assemani, Italian Orientalist (d. 1821)
• February 21 – Nathaniel Rochester, American politician (d. 1831)
• February 23 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian writer (d. 1819)
• February 25 – John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
• February 26 – James Winchester, American general and politician (d. 1826)
• February 27 – William Linn (d. 1808)
• February 28 – William Washington, United States soldier (d. 1810)
• March 3 – Thomas Hardy (political reformer) (d. 1832)
• March 5 – Leendert Viervant the Younger, Dutch architect (d. 1801)
• March 8 – William Bingham, American Continental congressman, senator for Pennsylvania (d. 1804)
• March 8
  • Johann David Schoepff, German biologist (d. 1800)
  • Robert Clifford, cricketer (d. 1811)
• March 11
  • Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet, British Army officer (d. 1823)
  • Joseph Malboeuf, dit Beausoleil, Member of Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada (d. 1823)
• March 14
  • Claude-Jean Martin, French Navy officer (d. 1827)
  • Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, member of the French Directory (d. 1810)
• March 16 – Antoine Joseph Santerre, French general (d. 1809)
• March 19 – Giuseppe Colucci, historian of the Marche and writer (d. 1809)
• March 20 – Robert Newman, American sexton at the Old North Church in Boston (d. 1804)
• March 21
  • Louis d'Elbée (d. 1794)
  • Mary Dixon Kies, the first recipient of a U.S. patent (d. 1837)
• March 23 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (d. 1815)
• March 24 – Antoine Joseph Gorsas (d. 1793)
• March 25 – Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Spanish duke (d. 1787)
• March 31 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (d. 1849)
• April 4
  • Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (d. 1837)
  • Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss artist (d. 1809)
• April 5 – Sébastien Érard (d. 1831)
• April 6 – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (d. 1833)
• April 9 – Rudolph Zacharias Becker, German educator and author (d. 1822)
• April 13 – Joseph Drapeau, Canadian politician (d. 1810)
• April 17 – John Austin, inventor (d. 1830)
• April 18 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet (d. 1794)
• April 19
  • John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker, British politician (d. 1821)
  • Friederike Brion, first great love of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (d. 1813)
• April 21
  • Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer (d. 1807)
  • Humphry Repton, English garden designer (d. 1818)
• April 23 – John Willett Payne, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1803)
• April 24 – Henry Latimer (senator), American politician (d. 1819)
• April 28 – Matsumura Goshun, Japanese artist (d. 1811)
• April 29 – Theodore Foster, American politician (d. 1828)
• May 4
  • John Brooks (governor), Massachusetts doctor, military officer, governor (d. 1825)
  • François Adriaan van der Kemp, Dutch politician (d. 1829)
• May 5 – Johann Tobias Mayer, German physicist (d. 1830)
• May 9 – Johann Anton Leisewitz, German lawyer and dramatic poet (d. 1806)
• May 9 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (d. 1832)
• May 10
  • Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (d. 1828)
  • Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville, French general (d. 1821)
• May 11 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
• May 12 – Infante Gabriel of Spain (d. 1788)
• May 13 – Michael Hughes, Welsh industrialist (d. 1825)
• May 14
  • Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
  • Timothy Dwight IV, American academic and educator (d. 1817)
  • Juliane Reichardt, Pianist, singer and composer (d. 1783)
• May 16 – Samuel Denny Street, Canadian politician (d. 1830)
• May 17 – Thomas Boude, American politician (d. 1822)
• May 20
  • William Wrightson, British politician (d. 1827)
  • Charles-Louis Antiboul, French Girondist politician (d. 1793)
• May 22 – Louis Legendre, French politician of the Revolution period (d. 1797)
• May 24
  • Oliver Cromwell, African-American soldier (d. 1853)
  • Thomson J. Skinner, American politician (d. 1809)
• May 26
  • Antoine Brice, painter (d. 1817)
  • William Badger, master shipbuilder operating in Kittery (d. 1830)
• May 28 – Robert Carr Brackenbury (d. 1818)
• May 29 – Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, British diplomat (d. 1825)
• May 31 – John Marsh, English music composer (d. 1828)
• June 4
  • Charles Finch (MP), British politician (d. 1819)
  • John Eager Howard, American politician (d. 1827)
• June 5
  • George Burder, English Nonconformist divine (d. 1832)
  • Hardy Murfree, American soldier (d. 1809)
• June 6 – John Gabriel Jones, Kentucky pioneer and statesman (d. 1776)
• June 8 – Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet (d. 1824)
• June 11
  • Christian Graf von Haugwitz, German statesman (d. 1832)
  • Eliphalet Pearson (d. 1826)
• June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
• June 15 – Paul Cobb Methuen, British politician (d. 1816)
• June 19 – Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), second son of William Cavendish (d. 1781)
• June 24 – Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (d. 1822)
• June 27 – Hannah Mather Crocker, American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America (d. 1829)
• June 29 – Christopher Frederik Lowzow, Danish-Norwegian army officer (d. 1829)
• July 1 – Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, British Army general (d. 1795)
• July 3 – Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1809)
• July 4 – Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry, Canadian politician (d. 1828)
• July 5
  • Peter Swart, American politician (d. 1829)
  • Luke Hansard, English printer (d. 1828)
• July 7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
• July 8 – Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley, British diplomat (d. 1830)
• July 10
  • David Humphreys, American diplomat (d. 1818)
  • St. George Tucker, United States federal judge (d. 1827)
• July 14 – Andreas Joseph Hofmann, German philosopher and revolutionary (d. 1849)
• July 17 – Barnaba Oriani, Italian priest (d. 1832)
• July 20 – Guillaume-Jean-Noël de Lavillegris, French Navy officer (d. 1807)
• July 23 – Marc-Auguste Pictet, physicist (d. 1825)
• July 27 – Samuel Smith (Maryland), American politician (d. 1839)
• July 29 – John Manners-Sutton, British politician (d. 1826)
• July 30 – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Irish politician (d. 1824)
• August 6 – Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen, Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (d. 1805)
• August 11 – Alexander Tormasov, Russian general (d. 1819)
• August 13 – Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily (d. 1814)
• August 19 – Herman Bultos, Belgian wine merchant and theatre director (d. 1801)
• August 20
  • Peter Ochs, Swiss politician (d. 1821)
  • Landgravine Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1782)
• August 21
  • Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter (d. 1795)
  • Jacques Roux, French priest (d. 1794)
  • Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit, French diplomat (d. 1829)
• August 23 – Ebenezer Elmer, American politician (d. 1843)
• August 25
  • Lodovico Gallina, Italian painter (d. 1787)
  • Karl Mack von Leiberich (d. 1828)
• September 8 – Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer (d. 1813)
• September 13 – Benedikte Naubert (d. 1819)
• September 18 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
• September 20 – Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, wife of Charles Edward Stuart (d. 1824)
• September 21 – Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette, Danish statesman, landscape architect (d. 1803)
• September 22
  • Elisha Clark, American politician (d. 1838)
  • James Bowdoin III, American philanthropist and statesman (d. 1811)
  • Jeongjo of Joseon, Ruler of Joseon (d. 1800)
• September 27
  • Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, French diplomat (d. 1817)
  • Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale, British Baron (d. 1837)
• September 30
  • Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (d. 1817)
  • William Adams, British politician (d. 1811)
• October 2
  • Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (d. 1811)
  • Joseph Ritson, English antiquary (d. 1803)
• October 6 – Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan (d. 1822)
• October 10 – Lucy Jefferson Lewis (d. 1810)
• October 13 – William Grant, British lawyer, politician and judge (d. 1832)
• October 16
  • Adolph Freiherr Knigge, German writer and Freemason (d. 1796)
  • Joseph Papineau, Canadian politician (d. 1825)
• October 17 – Jacob Broom, American businessman and politician (d. 1810)
• October 20 – Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken (d. 1837)
• October 22 – Ambrogio Minoja, Composer and professor of music (d. 1825)
• October 23 – Maria Anna Adamberger, Austrian stage actress (d. 1804)
• October 28 – Jean Henri Simon, engraver, soldier (d. 1834)
• November 1 – Józef Zajączek, Polish general and politician (d. 1826)
• November 2
  • Andrey Razumovsky, Russian diplomat (d. 1836)
  • Thomas Carpenter, glassmaker (d. 1847)
• November 4
  • George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, Cricketer (d. 1826)
  • Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac (d. 1841)
• November 5
  • Jens Holmboe, Norwegian bailiff (d. 1804)
  • Richard Richards (judge), British politician (d. 1823)
• November 8 – Claude-Augustin Tercier, French general (d. 1823)
• November 10 – Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Great-grandfather of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1837)
• November 11
  • John McMillan, Presbyterian minister and missionary in Pennsylvania (d. 1833)
  • Thomas Cutler, Canadian politician (d. 1837)
• November 15
  • Jacques Defermon des Chapelieres, French politician (d. 1831)
  • Nathaniel Chipman, United States federal judge (d. 1843)
• November 17 – Caspar Voght, German businessman (d. 1839)
• November 18
  • Joseph Hiester, American politician (d. 1832)
  • P. H. Frimann, Norwegian-Danish poet (d. 1839)
• November 19 – George Rogers Clark, American soldier and officer (d. 1818)
• November 20
  • Robert Wright (politician), American politician (d. 1826)
  • John Reeves, British judge (d. 1829)
  • Thomas Chatterton, English poet (d. 1770)
• November 21 – George Pozer (d. 1848)
• November 23 – Maksimilijan Vrhovac, Croatian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1827)
• November 25 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer (d. 1814)
• November 26 – María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna (d. 1834)
• November 29 – Philippe-André Grandidier, French priest and historian (d. 1787)
• November 29 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
• November 30 – François Viger, Canadian politician (d. 1824)
• December 2 – Angélique Victoire, Comtesse de Chastellux, French comtesse (d. 1816)
• December 3
  • George Cabot, American politician (d. 1823)
  • Leonard Gyllenhaal, Swedish military officer and entomologist (d. 1840)
• December 5 – Francis Fane of Spettisbury, Member of the Parliament (d. 1813)
• December 6
  • Robert de Lamanon, French botanist (d. 1787)
  • Gabriel Duvall, United States federal judge (d. 1844)
• December 8
  • Sir John Barrington, 9th Baronet (d. 1818)
  • Placidus a Spescha, Swiss mountain climber (d. 1833)
  • Vicesimus Knox, English essayist and minister (d. 1821)
• December 9 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and military engineer (d. 1813)
• December 10 – Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1806)
• December 12
  • Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, English aristocrat and politician (d. 1822)
  • Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (d. 1834)
  • Pedro Andrés del Alcázar, Spanish and later Chilean Army officer and war hero (d. 1820)
• December 14 – Christoph August Tiedge, German poet (d. 1841)
• December 16 – John Faucheraud Grimké, American politician (d. 1819)
• December 17 – John Kilby Smith, Continental army officer (d. 1842)
• December 19 – François Isaac de Rivaz, inventor and a politician (d. 1828)
• December 21 – Jean-François Houbigant, French perfumer (d. 1807)
• December 24 – Joseph Delaunay, French deputy (d. 1794)
• December 28 – Conrad Tanner, Swiss abbot (d. 1825)
• December 29 – Nathan Dane, American politician (d. 1835)
• December 30 – Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, British East India Company official (d. 1815)

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)