History
1752
General
Population: 829 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Jonathan Edwards (philosophy/religion), David Hume (politics),
William Law (divine knowledge), Charles Avison (musical expression)
Music includes Roussear (Fontainebleau),
- Science: Benjamin Franklin publishes findings on electricity - lightning storm and kite experiments
John Hill speculates sea cows may have been the original mermaids
- Technology: Franklin invents lightning conductor
- Deaths: Philosopher Joseph Butler
Asia
- Burma: End of second empire – the Taungoo Dynasty and start of the Kinbaung Dynasty of Burma
- India: Amad Shah Durrani who rules Afghanistan invades India, takes Lahore and plunders Delhi
End of famine
- Tibet: Chinese conquest complete
Europe
- General: Treaty of Aranjuez between Spain and Holy Roman Empire
- Great Britain: Adoption of 1582 Gregorian calendar on Sep 14 1752 – Sep 3-13 omitted
Manchester Royal Infirmary founded
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Amad Shah Durrani who rules Afghanistan invades India, takes Lahore and plunders Delhi
General
- Science: Benjamin Franklin flies kite during lightning storm, invents lightning rod
- Time: Year of only 354 days in the US due to calendar change, No more April Fools,
Midwest
- General: French plan to build military forts in Ohio Valley
South
- Georgia: Becomes royal colony