1852
Year 1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1849 1850 1851 – 1852 – 1853 1854 1855 |
Events
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January–March
- January 14 – President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte makes a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
- January 15 – Nine men from various Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
- January 17 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Transvaal.
- February 3 – Battle of Caseros or Battle of Monte Caseros, Argentina
- February 11 – The first British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London.
- February 15 – The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
- February 16 – The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company is started.
- February 19 – The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
- February 25 – The HMS Birkenhead sinks near Cape Town, South Africa. Only 193 of the 643 on board survive.
- March 1 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- March 2 – The first American steam fire engine was tested.[1]
- March 4 – Phi Mu Sorority is founded in Macon Georgia
- March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
April–June
- April 1 – The Second Burmese War begins.
- April 18 – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces begin the siege of Guilin.
- May 19 – Taiping Rebellion: The siege of Guilin is lifted.
- June 12 – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces enter Hunan.
July–September
- July 1 – United States statesman Henry Clay is the first to have the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.
- July 4 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" in Rochester, New York.
- July 28 – Henry Clay steamboat disaster in Riverdale, Bronx, with several deaths including Stephen Allen.
- August 3 – The first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
- September 24 – French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes.
October–December
- November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1852: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia.
- November 4 – Count Cavour becomes the Piedmontese prime minister.
- November 11 – The new Palace of Westminster opens in Britain.
- November 21–November 22 – The New French Empire is confirmed
- December 2 – Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
- December 23 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army takes Hanyang and begins the siege of Wuchang.
- December 29 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army takes Hankou.
Date unknown
- Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, makes the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
- The Devil's Island penal colony opens.
- In Hawaii sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3 or 5 year contracts.
- Queen Victoria embarks on a worldwide tour of the British Empire.
- Loyola College is chartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Germans are encouraged to move to Chile
- Antioch College is started. Its first president is Horace Mann.
- Mills College is started.
- Leo Tolstoy's first novel, Childhood, is published in book form.
Births
January–June
- January 1 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777)
- January 6 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
- May 3 – Sara Coleridge, English writer and translator (b. 1802)
- March 4 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- April 17 – Étienne Maurice Gérard, Marshal of France and Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
- June 7 – José Joaquín Estudillo, second alcalde of Yerba Buena (b. 1800)
- June 29 – Henry Clay, American statesman (b. 1777)
July–December
- July 20 – José Antonio Estudillo, early California settler (b. 1805)
- July 22 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
- September 4 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
- September 14
- Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
- September 20 – Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (b. 1775)
- October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (b. 1805)
- October 24 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (b. 1782)
- October 25 – John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793)
- October 26 – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher (b. 1801)
- November 2 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian military hero (b. 1782)
- November 27 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (b. 1815)
- November 29 – Nicolae Bălcescu, Wallachian revolutionary (b. 1819)
- November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth, English-born actor (b. 1796)
- December 16 – Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Voortrekker leader (b. 1792)
Deaths
1852 Media
A Woman of the Century
John Harvey Kellogg, co-founder of the Kellogg Company
Friedrich Loeffler
Portrait photograph of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet.
Alice Liddel and ferns: this was published as a miniature on the last page of the original Alice's Adventures Underground (1861).[1]
A Woman of the Century
Hermann Emil Fischer (* 9. Oktober 1852 in Euskirchen; † 15. Juli 1919 in Berlin)
A woman of the century
References
- ↑ King, William T. (1896). History of the American Steam Fire-Engine. Pinkham Press.