Editing 1752 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; In [[Istanbul]], [[Divitdar Mehmed Emin Pasha]] is dismissed from his position as [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] by the Ottoman Sultan, [[Mahmud I]].  The Sultan appoints Çorlulu Ali Pasha as the new Grand Vizier.
* [[July 30]] &ndash; The first of the [[Kronstadt]] canals, conceived by [[Peter the Great]] and designed to link two of the harbors of the Russian city, is completed and opened to maritime traffic.<ref>"A. P. Gannibal: On the Occasion of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Pushkin's Great-Grandfather", by N. K. Teletova, in ''Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness'', ed. by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, et al. (Northwestern University Press, 2006) p69</ref> 
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Edward Cornwallis]], the British [[Governor of Nova Scotia]], is recalled to Britain after being unsuccessful in pressuring Nova Scotia's Acadian population to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown or to face expulsion.  His replacement, [[Peregrine Hopson]], is more lenient with the Acadians but is reassigned less than two years later.<ref>William Arceneaux, ''No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud'' (Louisiana State University Press, 2004) p56</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; A group of Scottish Presbyterians who had fled to America from Scotland held the  first [[Covenanter]] communion in the 13 American colonies, meeting in [[New Kingstown, Pennsylvania]].<ref>Christine Clepper Musser, ''Images of America: Silver Spring Township'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2014) p31</ref> 
* [[August 25]] &ndash; The first group of the United Brethren church, commonly called the Moravians, leaves [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]] on a mission to find {{convert|100000|acre}} of land on which to build "Villages of the Lord" for German emigres to settle upon in America; after a {{convert|450|mile|adj=on}} journey, they arrive in [[Edenton, North Carolina]] on September 10 and eventually purchase the [[Wachovia Tract]], a set of lands in the western [[North Carolina]] colony.<ref>Beverly Hamel, ''American Chronicles: Bethania— The Village by the Black Walnut Bottom'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)</ref>
* [[September 2]] of [[Julian calendar]] (Wednesday) (September 13 "[[Old Style and New Style dates|New Style]]"){{snd}} [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and the [[British Empire]] use the Julian calendar for the last time and adopt the [[Gregorian calendar]], making the next day Thursday, September 14 in the English-speaking world.  A newspaper at the time notes the next day that "Altho' we have more than once, for the Information of our Readers, publish'd some Accounts of the Alteration of the ''Style'', which took Place this Day, agreeable to [[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750|a late Act of Parliament]], in all his Majesty's Dominions in Europe, Asia, Africa and America" and notes that "The Supputation of the Year began on the first Day of January last, and for the future the first Day of that Month will be stiled the first Day of every Year in all Accounts whatsoever, which Supputation or Reckoning never took Place before this Year in any Courts of Law until the 25th Day of March", and adds, "This Day, had not this Act passed, would have been the 3rd of September, but is now reckoned the 14th, eleven nominal Days being omitted."  <ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-derby-mercury-the-british-empire-adv/141986032/ "Saturday's Post from the Whitehall and General Evening Posts"], ''The Derby Mercury'' (Derby, Derbyshire), September 15, 1752, p1</ref>