1652

This article is about the year 1652.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1649 1650 1651 – 1652 – 1653 1654 1655

1652 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1652 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1652 MDCLII
Ab urbe condita	2405
Armenian calendar	1101 ԹՎ ՌՃԱ
Assyrian calendar	6402
Bahá'í calendar	-192–-191
Bengali calendar	1059
Berber calendar	2602
English Regnal year	3 Cha. 2 – 4 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2196
Burmese calendar	1014
Byzantine calendar	7160–7161
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十一月二十日 (4288/4348-11-20) — to — 壬辰年十二月初一日 (4289/4349-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1368–1369
Ethiopian calendar	1644–1645
Hebrew calendar	5412–5413
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1708–1709
- Shaka Samvat	1574–1575
- Kali Yuga	4753–4754
Holocene calendar	11652
Iranian calendar	1030–1031
Islamic calendar	1062–1063
Japanese calendar	Keian 5Jōō 1 (承応元年)
Korean calendar	3985
Minguo calendar	260 before ROC 民前260年
Thai solar calendar	2195

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

Events

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 founds Cape Town.
• May 18 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
• May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.
• June 13 – Religion: George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

July–December

• August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
• October 8 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Kentish Knock: 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.

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)

Deaths

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