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Subject: 1752 in Great Britain==Saturday 14/9/2013==257/108 calendar 37

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1752 English cricket season financial 76/289 fin wk 11 (total48x2=96)

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Date Posted: 03:22:54 08/19/13 Mon

1752 in Great Britain
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1752 in Great Britain:
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Sport
1752 English cricket season

Events from the year 1752 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Contents
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1 Incumbents
2 Events
2.1 Undated
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also
Incumbents[edit source | edit]
Monarch - King George II
Prime Minister - Henry Pelham, Whig
Events[edit source | edit]
1 January - The British Empire (except Scotland, which already had it) adopts the Gregorian calendar: today is the first day of the New Year.[1]
26 February - First performance of Handel's oratorio Jephtha in London.[1]
17 March - Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.[1]
1 June - Murder Act 1751 comes into effect, providing that the bodies of hanged murderers should suffer public dissection or (for men) hanging in the gibbet.[2]
14 June - Robert Clive forces the surrender of French troops in the aftermath of the Siege of Trichinopoly in India.[1]
3 September–13 September inclusive - These dates are omitted from the calendar in Britain as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar to correct the discrepancy between the Old Style and New Style dates. There are some riots in London over the perceived loss of the days.[1]
Undated[edit source | edit]
Foundation of what will become the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a cottage hospital in Garden Street, Manchester, by Charles White (surgeon).[1]
Publications[edit source | edit]
Letters on the Study of History, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke posthumously.[1]
Essay on Musical Expression, Charles Avison.[1]
Births[edit source | edit]
18 January
Josiah Boydell, painter and publisher (died 1817)
John Nash, architect (died 1835)
March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), Welsh harpist (died 1824)
21 April - Humphry Repton, garden designer (died 1818)
13 June - Fanny Burney, novelist and diarist (died 1840)
30 July - Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Irish peer (died 1824)
20 November - Thomas Chatterton, poet (died 1770)
Deaths[edit source | edit]
16 January - Francis Blomefield, topographer (born 1705)
3 May - Samuel Ogle, provincial Governor of Maryland (born 1694)
23 May - William Bradford, printer (born 1663)
16 June - Joseph Butler, priest and theologian (born 1692)
22 August - William Whiston, mathematician (born 1667)
6 November - Ralph Erskine, minister (born 1685)
8 November - James of the Glen, wrongfully hanged as an accessory to the Appin Murder in Scotland (year of birth unknown)

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