This article is about the year 1652.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s |
Years: | 1649 1650 1651 – 1652 – 1653 1654 1655 |
1652 by topic: | |
Arts and Science | |
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
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Colonial governors - State leaders | |
Birth and death categories | |
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Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1652 MDCLII |
Ab urbe condita | 2405 |
Armenian calendar | 1101 ԹՎ ՌՃԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6402 |
Bahá'í calendar | -192–-191 |
Bengali calendar | 1059 |
Berber calendar | 2602 |
English Regnal year | 3 Cha. 2 – 4 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
Buddhist calendar | 2196 |
Burmese calendar | 1014 |
Byzantine calendar | 7160–7161 |
Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十一月二十日 (4288/4348-11-20) — to —
壬辰年十二月初一日(4289/4349-12-1) |
Coptic calendar | 1368–1369 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1644–1645 |
Hebrew calendar | 5412–5413 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1708–1709 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1574–1575 |
- Kali Yuga | 4753–4754 |
Holocene calendar | 11652 |
Iranian calendar | 1030–1031 |
Islamic calendar | 1062–1063 |
Japanese calendar | Keian 5Jōō 1 (承応元年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3985 |
Minguo calendar | 260 before ROC 民前260年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2195 |
Year 1652 (MDCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 8 – Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a vice-commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
- April 6 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founds Cape Town.
- May 18 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
- May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.
- June 13 – Religion: George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
July–December
- August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
- October 8 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Kentish Knock: The battle is fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea, about 30 km from the mouth of the River Thames.
Births
- March 3 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685)
- March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)
- April 7 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
- April 21 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
- December 9 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
- December 25 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
Deaths
- February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
- June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
- July 30 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
- August 22 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
- August 23 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
- October 8 – John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (b. 1602)
- October 20 – Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
- November 4 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (b. 1597)
- December 11 – Denis Petau, French theologian and historian (b. 1583)
- November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
- December 23 – John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)