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 (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.

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.

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.

Births

• 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.

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.

Various calendars

External links

• Brainy History - 1752 in History