Editing 1752 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; Spanish Governor [[Tomás Vélez Cachupín]] of [[Santa Fe de Nuevo México]], a province that now comprises most of the American state of [[New Mexico]], begins the first peace negotiations with the indigenous [[Comanche]] tribe after inviting tribal representatives to his home in [[Taos, New Mexico|Taos]].<ref>Elizabeth A. H. John, ''Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) p324</ref>  As a sign of good faith, he unconditionally releases the four Comanche prisoners of war held at Taos.  One of the released Comanches reports to his father, Chief Guanacante, about the hospitality extended to him during his imprisonment, and more meetings take place in July and in the autumn.
* [[April 12]] 
**The Kingdom of [[Afghanistan]], under the rule of [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]], recaptures the city of [[Lahore]] four years after its capture by the [[Sikhs]] of Punjab.<ref>"Afghan-Sikh Wars (Durrani-Sikh Wars)", by Melodee M. Baines, in ''Afghanistan at War: From the 18th-Century Durrani Dynasty to the 21st Century'', ed. by Tom Lansford (ABC-CLIO, 2017) p20</ref>
**The [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando]], Spain's Royal Academy of the Fine Arts, is formally established in [[Spain]], eight years after first being proposed to King Fernando VI by Jeronimo Antonio Gil as a small school in [[Madrid]].  The foundation of the Royal Academy is considered by historians to be "an essential step in modernizing Spain" during the [[Spanish Enlightenment]].<ref>Kelly Donahue-Wallace, ''Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment'' (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) p38</ref>
* [[April 13]] &ndash; The oldest property insurance company in the United States, "[[Philadelphia Contributionship]] for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire", holds its organizational meeting at the courthouse in Philadelphia to elect a board of directors, largely through the efforts of [[Benjamin Franklin]].  Franklin's newspaper, ''[[The Pennsylvania Gazette]]'', has been advertising the meeting since February 18, with a notice that "All persons inclined to subscribe to the articles of insurance of houses from fire, in or near this city, are desired to appear at the Court-house, where attendance will be given, to take in their subscriptions, every seventh day of the week, in the afternoon, until the 13th of April next, being the day appointed by the said articles for electing twelve directors and a treasurer."  <ref>''The Pennsylvania Gazette'', February 18, 1752, p2</ref><ref>''The Pennsylvania Gazette'', March 17, 1752, p2</ref>  The property insurance company is still in existence more than 250 years later.
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Adam Smith]], appointed the year before as a professor of logic, is unanimously elected by the faculty of the [[University of Glasgow]] to be the new Professor of Moral Philosophy "on the express condition that he would content himself with the emoluments of the Logic Professorship until 10 October",<ref>Ian Simpson Ross, ''The Life of Adam Smith'' (Oxford University Press, 2010)</ref> in that the 1751-1752 salary budgeted for the job has already been distributed to faculty members who had substituted for the previous moral philosophy professor, Thomas Craigie; from April to October, Smith's remuneration for teaching moral philosophy is limited to fees paid directly to him by his students (a [[half guinea]] per semester for the public class, and a [[Guinea (coin)|guinea]] per semester for the private class). Smith's lectures on ethics are first published in 1759 in his work ''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]''.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; At [[Marly-la-Ville]] in [[France]], physicist [[Thomas-François Dalibard]] successfully conducts  the [[kite experiment]] proposed by [[Benjamin Franklin]] in the 1750 book '' Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity''.<ref name=Tucker>Tom Tucker, ''Bolt Of Fate: Benjamin Franklin And His Fabulous Kite'' (PublicAffairs, 2009) p135-140</ref> 
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Franklin]] reportedly carries out his famous [[kite experiment]], duplicating experiments that show that [[lightning]] and [[electricity]] are the same.  According to Franklin, lightning strikes the kite that he is flying during a thunderstorm and produces sparks identical to what he has previously generated artificially in a [[Leyden jar]].  However, the report of his experiment is not made until October 19, in Franklin's newspaper, ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'', leading 20th century researchers to doubt that he conducted the experiment, if at all, until sometime after September 28, when he had written in the ''Gazette'' about other such experiments, and that he was making a claim that he had conceived the experiment independently.<ref name=Tucker/>  
* [[June 3]] &ndash; A fire destroys 13,000 houses in [[Moscow]] in the [[Russian Empire]], only 11 days after a May 23 fire destroyed 5,000 homes; by June 6, two-thirds of the city has been damaged or destroyed.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p52</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; The [[Logstown#Treaty_of_Logstown,_1752|Treaty of Logstown]] is signed by representatives of the [[Iroquois Confederation]], [[Lenape]] and [[Shawnee]] leaders, and commissioners from Virginia, headed by [[Joshua Fry]]. [[Christopher Gist]] and [[William Trent]] represent the [[Ohio Company]]. The treaty grants control over lands south and east of the Ohio River to the English, along with permission to build a fort on the site of what is now [[Pittsburgh]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Emilius Oviatt Randall|first=Daniel Joseph Ryan|title=History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State, Volume 1|year=1912|page=216|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9A4WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Pickawillany]] (now [[Piqua, Ohio]]), the capital of the [[Miami people|Miami Indian nation]], is attacked and burned by [[Odawa]], [[Ojibwe]] and [[France|French]] soldiers under the command of Odawa War Chief [[Charles Michel de Langlade]].<ref>Alan Axelrod, ''A Savage Empire: Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America'' (Macmillan, 2011) p131</ref>