1752 Calendar
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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 19, 1752
– James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
February 12, 1752
– Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821)
February 17, 1752
– Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
February 25, 1752
– John Graves Simcoe, British territorial lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
April 5, 1752
– Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
May 14, 1752
– Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
June 13, 1752
– Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
July 7, 1752
– Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
November 19, 1752
– George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
December 6, 1752
– Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1844)