1752

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Year 1752 (MDCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar for European countries but not Great Britain) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1752

January - June

  • January 1 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar. (Did not take place until September)
  • February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, 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.

July - December

  • September 1 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
  • September 3– September 13 inclusive - These dates were omitted from the calendar in Britain as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the British Empire to correct the eleven day discrepancy between the Old Style and New Style dates.

Undated

  • 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.

Births

1752 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1752
MDCCLII
Ab urbe condita 2505
Armenian calendar 1201
ԹՎ ՌՄԱ
Bahá'í calendar -92 – -91
Berber calendar 2702
Buddhist calendar 2296
Burmese calendar 1114
Chinese calendar 4388/4448-11-15
( 辛未年十一月十五日)
— to —
4389/4449-11-26
( 壬申年十一月廿六日)
Coptic calendar 1468 – 1469
Ethiopian calendar 1744 – 1745
Hebrew calendar 5512 – 5513
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1807 – 1808
 - Shaka Samvat 1674 – 1675
 - Kali Yuga 4853 – 4854
Holocene calendar 11752
Iranian calendar 1130 – 1131
Islamic calendar 1165 – 1166
Japanese calendar Hōreki 2
(宝暦2年)
Korean calendar 4085
Thai solar calendar 2295
  • January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (died 1836)
  • January 2 - Philip Morin Freneau, American poet (died 1832)
  • January 23 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (died 1832)
  • January 31 - Governor Morris, American diplomat and politician (died 1815)
  • February 17 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (died 1831)
  • February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (died 1806)
  • April 21 - Humphry Repton, English garden designer (died 1818)
  • May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (died 1840)
  • June 13 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
  • July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
  • August 13 - Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily (died 1814)
  • September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
  • November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)
  • November 29 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (died 1819)
  • date unknown - John Nash, English architect (died 1835)


Deaths

  • January 4 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)
  • January 16 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (born 1705)
  • February 9 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (born 1722)
  • May 3 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (born 1694)
  • May 23 - William Bradford, British-born printer (born 1663)
  • June 16
    • Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (born 1664)
    • Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (born 1692)
  • June 21 - Old Briton, Piankashaw chieftain
  • July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (born 1667)
  • July 29 - Peter Warren, British admiral (born 1703)
  • August 22 - William Whiston, English mathematician (born 1667)
  • November 5 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670)
  • November 6 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (born 1685)
  • date unknown - Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (born 1675)

Various calendars

Selected dates as observed in various jurisdictions
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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