1852

Years: 1849 1850 1851 - 1852 - 1853 1854 1855

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1852 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths

1852 was a Leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
• January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal
• Devil's Island penal colony opens
• February 11 - First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London
• February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient
• February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the Automobile manufacturer, is established
• February 19 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
• March 1 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• April 1 - Start of Second Burmese War
• September 24 - French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first Airship trip from Paris to Trappes
• October 6 - In Mexico, French settlers under Count Gaston Raousset-Boulbon occupy the city of Hermosillo and declare the Republic of Sonora. The attempt falters when the count contracts Dysentery
• November 2 - Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia in the U.S. presidential election
• November 4 - Count Cavour becomes Piedmont prime minister
• November 11 - New Palace of Westminster opened in Britain
• November 21/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253,000 against
• December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.

• French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs
• Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society

Births

• March 1 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
• April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (d. 1911)
• April 13 - F.W. Woolworth, American merchant and businessman (d. 1919)
• April 22 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
• May 1 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1934)
• May 4 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (d. 1934)
• May 31 - Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
• July 12 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
• August 30 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
• September 12 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
• September 28 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• October 2 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• October 9 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• November 3 - Mutsuhito of Japan, Meiji Emperor (d. 1912)
• November 11 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
• November 22 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)
• December 15 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
• December 19 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

Deaths

• January 6 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
• March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
• June 29 - Henry Clay, American Senator (b. 1777)
• 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)
• September 14 - 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 24 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (b. 1782)
• November 27 - Augusta Ada King (neé Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (b. 1815)
• November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth, English-born actor (b. 1796)