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What Happened In Year 1752?

• 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 In The Year 1752?

• January 1, 1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
• January 19, 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
• January 24, 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
• January 31, 1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
• 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 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)
• June 13, 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
• July 7, 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
• July 27, 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839)
• September 18, 1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
• October 16, 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 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)

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