1752

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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.

Contents 1 Events of 1752 1.1 January–June 1.2 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Various calendars 5 References 6 External links

Events of 1752

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.
• 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.

Undated

• 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]

Births

1752 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1752 MDCCLII
Ab urbe condita	2505
Armenian calendar	1201 ԹՎ ՌՄԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-92 – -91
Bengali calendar	1159
Berber calendar	2702
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
- Bikram Samwat	1808 – 1809
- 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 (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 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)

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 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)

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 1752
Tuesday	4 April 1752	24 March 1752	24 March 1752
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

References

External links

• Brainy History – 1752 in History