The bell was commissioned from the London firm of Lester and Pack in 1752, and was cast with the lettering ( part of Leviticus 25: 10 ) " Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

Hume's volume of Political Discourses ( published by Kincaid & Donaldson, 1752 ) was the only work he considered successful on first publication.

However, Diderot's work was plagued by controversy from the beginning ; the project was suspended by the courts in 1752.

Mariners had noticed that lightning strikes had the ability to disturb a compass needle, but the link between lightning and electricity was not confirmed until Benjamin Franklin's proposed experiments in 1752.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

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

This arrangement was upheld by the Reichstag in 1752.

In 1752, he was " raised to the bench ", thus acquiring the title of Lord Kames.

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.

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.

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

Great Britain and its colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, which was when they ultimately adopted the Gregorian calendar.

The term " physical chemistry " was coined by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1752, when he presented a lecture course entitled " A Course in True Physical Chemistry " ( Russian: « Курс истинной физической химии ») before the students of Petersburg University.

The first discovery of papyri rolls in modern days was made at Herculaneum in 1752.

Argo Navis was sub-divided in 1752 by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, forming Puppis.

Great Britain and its American colonies reformed in 1752, where Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 ; they were joined by the last Protestant holdout, Sweden, on 1 March 1753.

In 1752 a rigorous quarantine clause was introduced into an act regulating the Levantine trade ; and various arbitrary orders were issued during the next twenty years to meet the supposed danger of infection from the Baltics.

As traveling to surrounding churches was difficult in winter, in 1752 the General Assembly granted the community the right to worship in area homes from September through March.

In 1752 the Council of Georgia granted the settlers, as colonial officials wanted a large number of settlers in the area to protect them from the Creek Indians.

It was granted as Newton in 1752 by Governor Benning Wentworth, but would be incorporated in 1763 as Alstead.

First granted as Monadnock No. 4 in 1752 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, this was one in a line of eight towns settled by Scottish colonists.

The land was originally named Boyle after Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, when the land was granted by the Masonian Proprietors in 1752, but ongoing hostilities during the French and Indian War prevented settlement.

Originally named Monadnock No. 6, the town was granted in 1752 by Governor Benning Wentworth.

This territory was first granted in 1752 to Colonel Sampson Stoddard of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and others as Monadnock Number 7.

It was granted city status in 1752, but had been a harbor for exporting of timber / lumber since around 1550.

First granted as Monadnock No. 5 in 1752 by Governor Benning Wentworth, this was one of the fort towns originally known only by a number.

In 1752, the Masonian Proprietors granted the land to Andrew Todd, who called it Todd's Town.

Mary Dixon Kies ( March 21, 1752 – 1837 ) was an early 19th-century American who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on May 5, 1809, which was for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

The territory where the present city of Saint-Jérôme now stands was granted in 1752 by the marquis de la Jonquière, governor of New France, as the seignory of Augmentation des Mille-Iles ( literally " enlargement " of the seignory of Mille-Iles ).

The Gajapati and Ganjam districts of Orissa were granted to the French East India Company around 1752.

In 1752 Croghan was on the Indian council that granted Virginia's Ohio Company permission to build the fort.

Later on the Caracciolo, princes of Torella, to whom belonged the feudal rights, granted permission for the deforestation, the tillage, and the cultivation of lands occupied from the forests of the locality " Gaudo " and as a result of the consequent economic development the population endured a strong growth: in the year 1735 the inhabitants had grown to approximately 3, 000, in 1752 to approximately 9, 000 and by 1811 they had exceeded 11, 000.

In 1805, the then Surgeon-General ( Principal Surgeon ) of the Colony of New South Wales, Thomas Jamison ( 1752 / 53-1811 ), was granted on the banks of the Nepean River, to the south of what is now Jamison Road.

The Illinois country by 1752 had a population of 2, 500 ; it was concentrated around Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Sainte Genevieve.

In 1752, he took up a post with his brother producing landscapes of the royal estates at Windsor ( the royal collection includes over 500 images by the Sandby brothers ).

In 1752, Selima won the biggest prize of the era, 2, 500 pistoles at Gloucester, Virginia which marked " the beginning of the remarkable racing contests between the rival colonies of Maryland and Virginia.

In 1752 more than 500 tons of English hops were imported through Dublin alone.

His operatic works include two of the most successful musical comedies of the eighteenth century, Il filosofo di campagna ( The Country Philosopher ), set by Galuppi ( 1752 ) and La buona figliuola ( The Good Girl ), set by Niccolò Piccinni ( 1760 ).

* Il filosofo di campagna ( The Country Philosopher ) by Galuppi ( 1752 )

* A manual of theology in 4 vols, Theologia eclectica, moralis et scholastica ( Augsburg, 1752 ; revised by Pope Benedict XIV for the 1753 edition published at Bologna )

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

In 1752, he founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire.

The State of Kuwait ( Dawlat al Kuwayt ) has been ruled by the al-Sabah dynasty since approximately 1752.

After the death of her father in 1752 she carried out a long-cherished purpose by giving herself to the study of theology, and especially of the Fathers and devoted herself to the poor, homeless, and sick.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).