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).

[edit] Events of 1752

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.

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.

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.

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)

See also Category: 1752 deaths.