1752
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Years: | 1749 1750 1751 - 1752 - 1753 1754 1755 |
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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).
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[edit] Events of 1752
[edit] 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.
[edit] July - December
- September 1 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
- September 3–September 13 inclusive - These dates are omitted from the calendar in Britain as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the British Empire, to correct the 11-day discrepancy between the Old Style and New Style dates.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
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 |
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 | 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 (d. 1836)
- January 2 - Philip Morin Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
- January 23 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (d. 1815)
- 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)
- date unknown - John Nash, English architect (d. 1835)
- See also Category: 1752 births.
[edit] 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)
- See also Category: 1752 deaths.
[edit] Various calendars
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 |