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1752| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1752 | Russia [natural disasters] | A major fire in Moscow, Russia, destroys 18,000 houses. | | 1752 | America [science] | North American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin describes the principle of the pointed lightning conductor to attract electricity from the atmosphere, and protect buildings from lightning. His ‘sentry box’ experiment is conducted for the first time, in France, generating large sparks between an insulated lightning rod and an earthed wire. | | June 1752 | America [physics] | North American scientist and politician Benjamin Franklin performs his most famous experiment, flying a kite during a thunderstorm and charging a Leyden jar to which it is connected. He thereby demonstrates the electrical nature of lightning. |
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