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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1752. 1752 (MDCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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    Anne Henriette of France (14 August 1727 – 10 February 1752) was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the second child of King Louis XV and Queen...
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    Louis, Duke of Orléans (4 August 1703 – 4 February 1752) was a member of the House of Bourbon, and as such was a prince du sang. At his father's death...
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    and Britain's American colonies, there were two calendar changes, both in 1752. The first adjusted the start of a new year from 25 March (Lady Day, the...
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    Murder Act 1751 (25 Geo. 2. c. 37), sometimes referred to as the Murder Act 1752, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Act included the provision...
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    Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia. As a founding member...
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  • de Deux-Ponts and later Christian Freiherr von Zweibrücken (20 November 1752 – 25 October 1817) was an officer of the French Army and later a general...
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    Elizabeth Johnson (née Jervis; 4 February 1689 – 17 March 1752), familiarly known as "Tetty", was the widow of Birmingham merchant Henry Porter, and later...
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  • date unknown – Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer (born c.1708) MusicAndHistory.com:1752 Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 13 March 2013...
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  • The year 1752 in architecture involved some significant events. Valletta Waterfront on Malta is built, including the Church of the Flight into Egypt. Mansion...
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  • information about the literary events and publications of 1752. January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal...
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    Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She served as regent for her son after the deaths in 1752–1753 of her husband and brother-in-law of, respectively, the ducal appanage...
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  • The 1752 Group is a UK-based research and lobby organisation working to end sexual misconduct in higher education. The Sexual Harassment in Higher Education...
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    St. George Tucker (July 10, 1752 – November 10, 1827) was a Bermudian-born American lawyer, military officer and professor who taught law at the College...
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  • Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa. pp. 170–171. "Calicut (11 de Dezembro de 1752)". Marinha (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2 October 2012...
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  • John Taylor (1752–1833) was a pioneer Baptist preacher, religious writer, frontier historian and planter in north and central Kentucky. His two histories...
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    William Cheselden (/ˈtʃɛsəldən/; 19 October 1688 – 10 April 1752) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing...
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    year from 25 March to 1 January. The Act elided eleven days from September 1752. It ordered that religious feast days be held on their traditional dates –...
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    William Bradford (May 20, 1663 – May 23, 1752) was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America. Bradford is best known for establishing...
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  • The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events. Establishment of Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, the world's oldest zoo. Thomas...
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  • This is the calendar for Old Style 1752, a leap year which began on 1 January, and dropped 3–13 September to transition to the Gregorian calendar. Previously...
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    the wet kite string to the ground. The experiment was first proposed in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin, who reportedly conducted the experiment with the assistance...
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  • Lord Richard Cavendish (19 June 1752 – 7 September 1781) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of...
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    Samuel Smith (July 27, 1752 – April 22, 1839) was an American Senator and Representative from Maryland, a mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and a general in...
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    Office. Until Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 came into effect on 1 January 1752 (N.S.), the Gazette was published with a date based on the Julian calendar...
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  • changed the start of the year to 1 January in 1752 (so 1751 was a short year with only 282 days). Later in 1752 in September the Gregorian calendar was introduced...
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    Events from the year 1752 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel...
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    Treaty of 1752 was a treaty signed between the Mi'kmaq people of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia and the governor of Nova Scotia on 22 November 1752 during Father...
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  • John Norris (1685–1752) was an English member of the Parliament of Great Britain. He was born the eldest son of William Norris of Nonsuch House, Wiltshire...
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  • The List of shipwrecks in 1752 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1752. "The Geldermalsen wreck". National Museum of Australia...
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