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1752 Historical Event(s)
February 11, 1752
– Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
June 6, 1752
– A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
June 15, 1752
– Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
September 2, 1752
– Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
September 14, 1752
– The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
Who Were Born On 1752?
January 24, 1752
– Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
May 4, 1752
– John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
May 11, 1752
– Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
May 14, 1752
– Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
July 7, 1752
– Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
July 27, 1752
– Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839)
August 13, 1752
– Maria Carolina of Austria, queen consort of Naples and Sicily, wife of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
November 19, 1752
– George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
November 29, 1752
– Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher, settler of Jerusalem & Watkins Glen, New York (p. 7/1/1819)
December 6, 1752
– Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1844)