1852

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Years:	1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855

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**1852 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1852 MDCCCLII
Ab urbe condita	2605
Armenian calendar	1301 ԹՎ ՌՅԱ
Chinese calendar	4488/4548-11-11 (辛亥年十一月十一日) — to — 4489/4549-11-21 (壬子年十一月廿一日)
Ethiopian calendar	1844 – 1845
Hebrew calendar	5612 – 5613
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1907 – 1908
- Shaka Samvat	1774 – 1775
- Kali Yuga	4953 – 4954
Iranian calendar	1230 – 1231
Islamic calendar	1268 – 1269
Thai solar calendar	2395

1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

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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 3 - Battle of Caseros or Battle of Monte Caseros, Argentina. The Argentinean provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes allied with Brazil and members of Colorado Party of Uruguay, defeats Buenos Aires troops under Juan Manuel Rosas.
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
February 19 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
March 1 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
April 1 - Start of Second Burmese War
April 18 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces begin siege of Guilin.
May 19 - Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Guilin lifted.
June 12 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping fources enter Hunan.
September 24 - French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes
October 6 - In Mexico, French settlers under Count Gaston Raousset-Boulbon occupy the city of Hermosillo and declare the Republic of Sonora. The attempt falters when the count contracts dysentery
November 2 - Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia in the U.S. presidential election
November 4 - Count Cavour becomes the Piedmontese prime minister
November 11 - New Palace of Westminster opened in Britain
November 21/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253,000 against
December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
December 23 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping army takes Hanyang and begin siege of Wuchang.
December 29 - Taiping Rebellion: Taiping army takes Hankou.
December 31-Richard Owen hosts a party inside a plaster Iguanodon.

French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs
Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society
Uncle Tom's Cabin published