Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1752
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Literature
- Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
- Samuel Johnson concludes The Rambler
- Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions
Theatre
Art
- Richard Wilson studies painting in Rome (through 1757)
Music
- Charles Avison, Essay on Music Expressions
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Jephtha
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Devin du village (comic opera)
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- America's first general hospital is founded in Philadelphia
Politics & Law
- The British and French fight in both America and India
- The French advance on the Ohio Valley, and establish two
forts south of Lake Erie
- St. John (Bolinbroke), Letters on the Study and Use of History
(posthumous)
- Clive takes Trichinopoly
- David Hume, Political Discourses
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
- Birth of Frances (Fanny) Burney
- Death of Joseph Butler
- Birth of Thomas Chatterton
- Death of Elizabeth Johnson ("Tetty"), wife of Samuel Johnson
- Birth of Vicesimus Knox
Miscellaneous
- Britain abandons the Julian and adopts the Gregorian
calendar, losing ten days in September
- Irish Language Society established in Dublin
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