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| 1752 |
| | | English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1753 |
| | | Walpole adds the library and refectory or great parlour to Strawberry Hill. | |
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| 1753 |
| | | The first, highly decorative, Hampton Court Bridge with seven steep sided arches opens and replaces the ferry and the ford used in the drier season | |
|  | Design for the first Hampton Court Bridge in 1753
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| 1754 |
| | | In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism | |
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| 1754 |
| | | David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends | |
|  | Garrick's Villa, in 1784
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| 1754 |
| | | Richard Hoare moves into Barn Elms, beginning a long period of close involvement of the famous banking family in the affairs of Barnes | |
|  | Barn Elms, Barnes
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