Today in History for Year 1752

Months in Year 1752: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 3rd - East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
Jan 15th - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
Feb 3rd - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
Mar 23rd - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
May 10th - Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
May 11th - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
Jun 3rd - Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire
Jun 5th - Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
Jun 6th - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
Jun 9th - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
Jun 10th - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
Jun 15th - Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment
Sep 1st - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
Sep 2nd - Last Julian calendar day in US & Britian/British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
Sep 3rd - This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
Sep 3rd - US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
Sep 14th - US & England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
Oct 18th - Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
Nov 3rd - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
Composer George Friedrich Handel Nov 11th - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 1st - Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag
Jan 2nd - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
Jan 19th - James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
Jan 23rd - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer
Jan 30th - Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer
Jan 31st - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
Feb 12th - Josef Reicha, Czech composer
Feb 17th - Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
Feb 20th - Charles Broche, composer
Feb 25th - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
Mar 19th - Jose Mauricio, composer
Mar 22nd - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
Mar 29th - Edward Jones, composer
Apr 4th - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
Apr 5th - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
Apr 6th - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
May 2nd - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
May 3rd - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
May 4th - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
Seamstress Credited with Creating the First American Flag Betsy Ross (Jan 1st) May 11th - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
May 14th - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
May 14th - Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
Jun 13th - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
Jun 16th - Meingosus Gaelle, composer
Jul 7th - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
Jul 27th - Samuel Smith, American politician
Aug 13th - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
Aug 27th - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
Sep 9th - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
Sep 10th - John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
Sep 18th - Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
Sep 18th - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
Sep 21st - Louise MC, countess of Albany
Sep 25th - Carl Stenborg, composer
Sep 30th - Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer
Oct 2nd - Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
Oct 22nd - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
Oct 23rd - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
Nov 19th - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
Nov 20th - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
Nov 25th - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
Nov 29th - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
Dec 3rd - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer
Dec 6th - Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
Dec 27th - Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

Jan 4th - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47
Jan 16th - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
Feb 9th - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
May 3rd - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
May 4th - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
May 23rd - William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663)
Jun 14th - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57
Jun 14th - Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88
Jun 16th - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
Jun 16th - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
Jul 20th - John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
Jul 29th - Peter Warren, British admiral
Aug 22nd - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
Nov 5th - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
Nov 6th - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
Nov 23rd - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79