1852

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1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of State

Events

• January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
• January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal
• Devil's Island penal colony opens
• February 11 - First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London
• February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient
• February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established
• November - Franklin Pierce defeats Winfield Scott in the U.S. presidential election
• November 7 - President Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III of France
• November 21/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253,000 against
• December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.

• 1852 in art
• 1852 in literature
  • March 20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
• 1852 in science
• 1852 in music

• April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter
• April 13 - F.W. Woolworth, merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's
• April 22 - Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg
• May 4 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• May 31 - Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist, inventor of Petri dish.
• September 12 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• November 3 - Mutsuhito of Japan, later the Meiji Emperor.
• November 11 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, chief of Austro-Hungarian general staff for much of World War I.
• December 15 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist

• January 6 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind
• September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British commander at the Battle of Waterloo and Prime Minister.
• November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.

• China - Xianfeng Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1850-1861)
• Denmark - Frederick VII, King of Denmark (1848-1863)
• France -
  1. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, President of France (1848-1852)
  2. Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1852-1870)
• Norway - Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859)
• Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
• Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
• Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
• Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
• United States - Millard Fillmore, President of the United States (1850-1853)

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