1752

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 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.

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.

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.

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)