Years: 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 - 1752 (MDCCLII) - 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758

Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1752 in art 1752 in literature 1752 in music 1752 in science List of state leaders in 1752 List of religious leaders in 1752

1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday; see the calendar.

Note: in Britain and its then colonies, this was the shortest year on record, because it started in late March, as usual, but ended at the end of December since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar. Events shown here for the first couple of months of 1752 in Britain and colonies were actually in what the inhabitants had called "1751".

Contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Various calendars 5 External link

Events

• February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, is opened.
• March 23 - The Halifax Gazette, the first Canadian newspaper
• June 15 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning)
• September 14 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)
• 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

• January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (died 1836)
• January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (died 1815)
• February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (died 1806)
• 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)
• September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
• November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)
• November 29 - Jemima Wilkinson, preacher (died 1819)
• Humphry Repton, English garden designer (died 1818)
• John Nash, English architect (died 1835)
• Philip Freneau, American poet (died 1832)

Deaths

• June 16 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (born 1664)
• June 16 - Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (born 1692)
• July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (born 1667)
• Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)
• Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (born 1675)
• Michael Festing, English violinist and composer (born 1680)
• Jean Francois de Troy, French painter (born 1679)
• Francis Blomefield, English topographer (born 1705)

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 1751	1 January 1751
Tuesday	4 April 1752	24 March 1751	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

External link

Brainy History - 1752 in History (http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1752.html)

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