1852

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

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1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

Events

The world in 1852

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.

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.

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.

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 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)

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February 25: HMS Birkenhead sinks, killing 450 people but establishing the principle of "women and children first".
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John Harvey Kellogg, co-founder of the Kellogg Company
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Friedrich Loeffler
Portrait photograph of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet.
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Alice Liddel and ferns: this was published as a miniature on the last page of the original Alice's Adventures Underground (1861).[1]
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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
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- Portrait of H. H. Asquith (1852–1928)
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