Editing 1752 (section)

=== January&ndash;March===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[British Empire]] (except Scotland, which had changed New Year's Day to January 1 in 1600) adopts today as the first day of the year as part of adoption of the [[Gregorian calendar]], which is completed in September: today is the first day of the New Year under the terms of last year's [[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750|Calendar Act]] of the British Parliament.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/315|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/315 315–316]}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Pennsylvania Hospital]], the first [[hospital]] in the United States, and the first to offer medical treatment to the mentally ill, admits its first patients at a temporary location in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Franklin|title=The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition|editor1=Nathan G. Goodman|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |editor2=Peter Conn |page=92}}</ref>  
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Messier 83]] (M83), the "[[Southern Pinwheel Galaxy]]"  and the first to be cataloged outside the "[[Local Group]]" of [[galaxy|galaxies]] nearest to Earth's galaxy, the [[Milky Way]], is discovered by French astronomer [[Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James L. Chen|author2=Adam Chen|title=A Guide to Hubble Space Telescope Objects: Their Selection, Location, and Significance|publisher=Springer|year=2015|page=53|bibcode=2015ghst.book.....C }}</ref> Lacaille, who observes M83 during a research voyage in the Southern Hemisphere, is the first to identify the body as a nebulous object rather than a star. M83, 15&nbsp;million [[light-year]]s away, is the most distant object to be identified up to that time. 
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The [[Virginia General Assembly|Virginia Assembly]] passes a law making [[Mutilation|maiming]] a [[felony]], in response to the practice of [[Gouging (fighting style)|gouging]].<ref name="Hening">{{cite web|url=http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol06-12.htm|title=Hening's Statutes at Large|first=William Walter|last=Hening|access-date=2011-04-09}}</ref>
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Alaungpaya]], a village chief in [[Upper Burma]], founds the [[Konbaung Dynasty]]; by the time of his death 8 years later, he will have unified the whole country.
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Shō Kei]], the ruler of [[Okinawa Island]] and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]], dies at the age of 41 after a reign that began when he was 13 years old. He is succeeded by his 12-year-old son, [[Shō Boku]], who reigns for 42 years.
* [[March 18]] &ndash; The electors of the [[Republic of Venice]] (which includes not only a large part of northern Italy around the city of [[Venice]], but portions of Eastern Europe along the [[Adriatic Sea]]) elect [[Francesco Loredan]] as their new executive, the [[Doge of Venice|Doge]]. Loredan's election comes 11 days after the death of the previous Doge, [[Pietro Grimani]], but is not announced until after Easter Sunday. 
* [[March 23]]
**The ''[[Halifax Gazette]]'', the first Canadian newspaper, is published.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eaman |first1=Ross |title=Historical Dictionary of Journalism |date=April 15, 2021 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-2504-5 |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yP4WEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 |language=en}}</ref>
**[[Inwa|Ava]], capital of the Kingdom of Burma, is sacked by [[Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom|Hanthawaddy Kingdom]], led by King [[Binnya Dala]].