Editing 1752 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 19]] — In his Philadelphia newspaper, the ''[[Pennsylvania Gazette]]'', [[Benjamin Franklin]] first describes the performance, in [[Philadelphia]] of the [[kite experiment]] that he had proposed in his 1750 book.  Although the original account makes no claim that he was the first to do the experiment (which had been done by other scientists (including Thomas-François Dalibard in May), nor that he conducted the test, and it does not give a date for the experiment, it becomes embellished as the story that Franklin "discovered electricity"; in 1766, the story first circulates that Franklin flew the kite in June, 1752, without specifying a date (as Franklin had done in other scientific accounts).<ref name=Tucker/>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; A hurricane destroys the Spanish settlement on Florida's [[Santa Rosa Island (Florida)|Santa Rosa Island]], leaving only two buildings standing;<ref>Jay Barnes, ''Florida's Hurricane History'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) p47</ref> the remaining residents decide to move from the [[barrier island]] on the Gulf of Mexico and to start a settlement on the nearby mainland and construct the Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola, which later forms the nucleus of the city of [[Pensacola, Florida]].  
* [[November 8]] &ndash; British Governor Hopson of [[Nova Scotia]] and French [[Governor General of New France]], the [[Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville|Marquis Duquesne]], agree to a free exchange of deserters from each other's armies in Canada, with the understanding that neither side will execute a deserter once returned.<ref>Dianne Marshall, ''Heroes of the Acadian Resistance: The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765'' (Formac Publishing, 2011) p105</ref>
* [[November 22]] &ndash; "[[Father Le Loutre's War]]", the war between the British Canadian colonists of [[Nova Scotia]] and the indigenous [[Mi'kmaq]] (Micmac) tribe halts temporarily when a [[Treaty of 1752|peace treaty]] is signed between the warring parties at [[Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia]].<ref>"Aboriginal Rights v. Government Legislation", by Graydon Nicholas, in ''The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge'', ed. by George Peabody, et al. (Maritext, Ltd., 1987) p257</ref>  Governor Hopson, accompanied by former Governor Cornwallis, signs on behalf of the British and Chief Kopit ([[Jean-Baptiste Cope]]), the ''Sakamaw'' of the Mi'kmaq, signs on behalf of his people.
* [[December 5]] &ndash; The first presentation of a Shakespearean play in America is performed when a company of players stages ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]].<ref>"Shylock as the American Capitalist", by Elaine Brousseau, in ''Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits: The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature'', ed. by Christa Mahalik (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) p95</ref>