1652 Calendar
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1652 Historical Event(s)
April 6, 1652
– At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
May 18, 1652
– Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
June 20, 1652
– Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
September 7, 1652
– Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
Who Were Born On 1652?
March 3, 1652
– Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
March 28, 1652
– Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
April 7, 1652
– Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
April 21, 1652
– Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
May 27, 1652
– Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
August 31, 1652
– Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1708)
December 9, 1652
– Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
December 25, 1652
– Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)