1652

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

1652 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1652 MDCLII
Ab urbe condita	2405
Armenian calendar	1101 ԹՎ ՌՃԱ
Assyrian calendar	6402
Balinese saka calendar	1573–1574
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 (Metal Rabbit) 4349 or 4142     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4350 or 4143
Coptic calendar	1368–1369
Discordian calendar	2818
Ethiopian calendar	1644–1645
Hebrew calendar	5412–5413
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1708–1709
- Shaka Samvat	1573–1574
- Kali Yuga	4752–4753
Holocene calendar	11652
Igbo calendar	652–653
Iranian calendar	1030–1031
Islamic calendar	1062–1063
Japanese calendar	Keian 5 / Jōō 1 (承応元年)
Javanese calendar	1573–1574
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3985
Minguo calendar	260 before ROC 民前260年
Nanakshahi calendar	184
Thai solar calendar	2194–2195
Tibetan calendar	阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1778 or 1397 or 625     — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1779 or 1398 or 626

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 17 – 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)