* 1752 – Maria Carolina of Austria ( d. 1814 )

* 1727 – Princess Henriette of France ( d. 1752 )

* Alexander V of Imereti ( c. 1703 / 4 – 1752 )

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

Betsy Ross ( January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836 ) is widely credited with making the first American flag.

* François Cabarrus ( 1752 – 1810 ), French adventurer and Spanish financier.

**** House of Bourbon-Braganza ( 1752 – 1979 ), also called Borbón y Braganza or Branch of the Infant Gabriel

* 1752 – Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1844 )

* 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

* 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.

* 1752 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist ( b. 1722 )

Giulio Alberoni ( 30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752 ) was an Italian cardinal and

* Adrien Marie Legendre 1752 – 1833, Paris ( France )

The method is based on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) and Adrien-Marie Legendre ( 1752 – 1833 ) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication and square roots.

* 1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18, 000 homes.

* 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist ( d. 1840 )

* 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor and merchant, invented the Jacquard loom ( d. 1834 )

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

* 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician ( d. 1839 )

* 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity ( traditional date, the exact date is unknown ).

After his return to England in 1750, he made three further voyages as captain of the slave-trading ships Duke of Argyle ( 1750 ) and African ( 1752 – 1753 and 1753 – 1754 ).

He wrote both the words and music of his opera Le Devin du Village ( The Village Soothsayer ), which was performed for King Louis XV in 1752.

The King James Version ( 1611 ) and the Challoner Douay Rheims Bible ( 1752 ) prefer the more theological term Charity for the same idea of specifically Christian love.

* June 28 – King Jeongjo of Joseon, 22nd ruler of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea ( b. 1752 )

* August 14 – Henriette-Anne of France ( died 1752 ) and Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France ( died 1759 ), twin daughters of King Louis XV of France

The first professional performances of King Lear in North America are likely to have been those of the Hallam Company ( later the American Company ) which arrived in Virginia in 1752 and who counted the play among their repertoire by the time of their departure for Jamaica in 1774.

The year 1752 brought another major commission to Gluck, when he was asked to set Metastasio's La clemenza di Tito ( the specific libretto was the composer's choice ) for the nameday celebrations of King Charles VII of Naples ( later Charles III of Spain ).

In 1752, King George II made the first official grant for ferry service, the ferry house north of Hoboken primarily used for farm produce, and likely was sold at the Greenwich Village landing that became Weehawken Street.

Louis Philippe was hardly fifteen when he and his young cousin Princess Henriette of France ( 1727 – 1752 ), the second daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, fell in love.

Danish sculpture as a nationally recognized art form can be traced back to 1752 when Jacques Saly was commissioned to execute a statue of King Frederick V of Denmark on horseback.

Challoner's 1752 New Testament was, however, extensively further revised by Bernard MacMahon in a series of Dublin editions from 1783 to 1810, for the most part adjusting the text away from agreement with that of the King James Bible ; and these various Dublin versions are the source of many, but not all, Challoner versions printed in the United States in the 19th Century.

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.

He also represented the Six Nations at the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, where he was referred to as " Thonariss, called by the English the half King ".

Solomon I () ( 1735 – April 23, 1784 ), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti ( western Georgia ) from 1752 to 1766 and again from 1768 until his death in 1784.

On 29 February 1752, three weeks before the fall of Ava, Aung Zeya founded the Konbaung Dynasty to resist the upcoming Hanthawaddy rule, styling himself King Alaungpaya.

Maria Carolina of Austria (; ; 13 August 1752 – 8 September 1814 ) was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV & III.

In 1752 Saly was commissioned to create a sculpture of King Frederick V of Denmark on horseback to be placed in the center of the courtyard of Amalienborg Palace.

King Jeongjo ( 22 September 1752 – 28 June 1800 ) was the 22nd ruler of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

Konbaung Dynasty ( 1752 – 1885 ), founded by king Alaungpaya in Shwebo, became the last Burmese dynasty before the British conquest of Upper Burma in 1885.

Alaungpaya (, ; also spelled Alaunghpaya ; 24 September 1714 – 11 May 1760 ) was king of Burma ( Myanmar ) from 1752 to 1760, and the founder of the Konbaung Dynasty.

On 29 February 1752 ( full moon of Tabaung 1113 ), as the Hanthawaddy forces were about to breach the outer walls of Ava, Aung Zeya proclaimed himself king with the royal style of Alaungpaya ( the Embryo Buddha ), and founded the Konbaung Dynasty.

The dynasty was founded by a village-chief Alaungpaya in 1752 to challenge the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom which had just toppled the Toungoo dynasty.