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1852 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
•  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.
•  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 29, 1852 – Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
•  August 3, 1852 – Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
•  September 24, 1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 mi from Paris to Trappes.
•  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.

•  January 11, 1852 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
•  March 15, 1852 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist (d. 1932)
•  March 22, 1852 – Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and violin teacher (d. 1934)
•  May 1, 1852 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
•  May 18, 1852 – Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer (d. 1934)
•  August 24, 1852 – Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
•  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)
•  October 9, 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
•  November 15, 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)