1752

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)
• 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)

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