1652

Year 1652 (MDCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1652

January - June

• January 8 - Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a Vice-Commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
• April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town.
• May 18 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
• May 29 - First Anglo-Dutch War opening battle fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp\'s 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

July - December

• August 26 - Battle of Plymouth (First Anglo-Dutch War): A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacked an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
• October 8 - Battle of the Kentish Knock (First Anglo-Dutch War): The battle is fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames.

Ongoing events

• Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

Births

• March 3 - Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685)
• March 28 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)
• April 7 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
• April 21 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
• December 9 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
• December 25 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)

See also Category:1652 births.

Deaths

• February 7 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582)
• June 21 - Inigo Jones, English architect (born 1573)
• July 30 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (born 1624)
• August 22 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (bborn 1583)
• August 23 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (born 1600)
• October 8 - John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (born 1602)
• October 20 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (born 1611)
• November 4 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (born 1597)
• December 11 - Denis Petau, French theologian and historian (born 1583)
• November 21 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1585)
• December 23 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1585)

See also Category:1652 deaths.

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