1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Note: in Britain and its then colonies, this was the shortest year on record, because it started in late March, as usual, but ended at the end of December since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar. Events shown here for the first couple of months of 1752 in Britain and colonies were actually in what the inhabitants had called "1751".
Events
Births
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January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (died 1836)
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January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (died 1815)
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February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (died 1806)
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May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (died 1840)
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June 13 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
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July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
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August 13 - Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily, consort of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and de facto ruler
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September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
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November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)
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November 29 - Jemima Wilkinson, preacher (died 1819)
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Humphry Repton, English garden designer (died 1818)
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John Nash, English architect (died 1835)
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Philip Freneau, American poet (died 1832)
Deaths
Various calendars
Selected dates as observed in various jurisdictions
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Most of Europe |
Britain & Cols |
Russia[?] |
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Saturday |
1 January 1752 |
21 December 1751 |
21 December 1751 |
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Wednesday |
12 January 1752 |
1 January 1751 |
1 January 1751 |
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Tuesday |
4 April 1752 |
24 March 1751 |
24 March 1751 |
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Wednesday |
5 April 1752 |
25 March 1752 |
25 March 1752 |
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Wednesday |
13 September 1752 |
2 September 1752 |
2 September 1752 |
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Thursday |
14 September 1752 |
14 September 1752 |
3 September 1752 |
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External link
Brainy History - 1752 in History