1752

Years: 1749 1750 1751 - 1752 - 1753 1754 1755
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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st 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

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)
Humphry Repton, English garden designer (died 1818)
John Nash, English architect (died 1835)
Philip Freneau, American poet (died 1832)