Years: 1849 1850 1851 - 1852 - 1853 1854 1855

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1852 in art 1852 in literature 1852 in music 1852 in rail transport 1852 in science 1852 in sports List of state leaders in 1852 List of religious leaders in 1852

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
• 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
• September 24 - French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes
• November - Franklin Pierce defeats Winfield Scott in the U.S. presidential election
• November 4 - Count Cavour becomes Piedmont prime minister
• November 7 - President Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III of France
• November 11 - New houses of Parliament 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 France.

• French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs

Births

• March 1 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
• 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.
• July 12 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930; d. 12 July 1933).
• 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

Deaths

• January 6 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind
• March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (b. 1809)
• March 10 - Augusta Louisa Lyons (née Rogers), Novelist and wife of British Admiral, Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Lord Lyons)
• September 4 - William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist
• September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British commander at the Battle of Waterloo and Prime Minister.
• October 24 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer/speaker/Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70.
• November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.

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