1852 Calendar
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1852 Historical Event(s)
February 3, 1852
– Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
February 14, 1852
– Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
March 1, 1852
– Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
May 1, 1852
– The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
July 3, 1852
– Congress establishes the United States’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
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).
Who Were Born On 1852?
February 29, 1852
– George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Russian nobleman (d. 1912)
May 18, 1852
– Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer (d. 1934)
May 25, 1852
– William Muldoon, American Greco-Roman wrestler (d. 1933)
June 25, 1852
– Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
September 6, 1852
– Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
September 10, 1852
– Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
September 23, 1852
– William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
November 3, 1852
– Emperor Meiji, 122nd Emperor of Japan (d. 1912)
November 21, 1852
– Francisco Tárrega, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909)
December 4, 1852
– Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)