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1852 Calendar

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•  February 5, 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
•  March 1, 1852 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
•  March 20, 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
•  April 9, 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
•  May 1, 1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
•  August 3, 1852 – Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
•  August 21, 1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
•  October 11, 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
•  November 16, 1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
•  December 2, 1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).

•  January 26, 1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)
•  March 1, 1852 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
•  March 15, 1852 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist (d. 1932)
•  April 22, 1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
•  May 1, 1852 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
•  August 23, 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
•  September 18, 1852 – Clement Lindley Wragge, British-born meteorologist (d. 1922)
•  September 23, 1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
•  October 2, 1852 – Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
•  December 4, 1852 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)