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1752 was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
- 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
- A fire in Moscow destroys 18,000 houses
January
February
May
June
August
September
November
December
Births
- January 1 - Betsy Ross , American entrepreneur (d. 1836 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- Humphry Repton , English garden designer (d. 1818 )
- John Nash , English architect (d. 1835 )
- Philip Freneau , American poet (d. 1832 )
Deaths
- January 4 - Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician (b. 1704 )
- January 16 - Francis Blomefield , English topographer (b. 1705 )
- February 9 - Fredric Hasselquist , Swedish naturalist (b. 1722 )
- May 3 - Samuel Ogle , British provincial Governor of Maryland
- May 23 - William Bradford , British-born printer (b. 1663 )
- June 16 - Giulio Alberoni , Spanish cardinal (b. 1664 )
- June 16 - Joseph Butler , English priest and theologian (b. 1692 )
- July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch , German composer (b. 1667 )
- July 29 - Peter Warren , British admiral
- August 22 - William Whiston , English mathematician (b. 1667 )
- November 5 - Carl Andreas Duker , German classical scholar (b. 1670 )
- November 6 - Ralph Erskine , Scottish minister (b. 1685 )
- Jacopo Amigoni , Italian painter (b. 1675 )
- Francis Blomefield , English topographer (b. 1705 )
- Old Briton , Piankashaw chieftain
Various calendars
External links
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