1852

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1849 1850 1851 - 1852 - 1853 1854 1855 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.\n* January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal\n*Devil's Island penal colony opens\n*February 11 - First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London\n*February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient\n* February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established\n* April 1 - Start of Second Burmese War\n* September 24 - French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Paris to Trappes\n* November - Franklin Pierce defeats Winfield Scott in the U.S. presidential election\n* November 4 - Count Cavour becomes Piedmont prime minister\n* November 7 - President Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III of France\n* November 11 - New houses of Parliament opened in Britain\n* November 21/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253,000 against\n* December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France. \n* French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs

Births

\n*March 1 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)\n*April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter\n*April 13 - F.W. Woolworth, merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's\n*April 22 - Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg\n*May 4 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.\n*May 31 - Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist, inventor of Petri dish.\n*September 12 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.\n*November 3 - Mutsuhito of Japan, later the Meiji Emperor.\n*November 11 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, chief of Austro-Hungarian general staff for much of World War I.\n*December 15 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist

Deaths

\n*January 6 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind\n*September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British commander at the Battle of Waterloo and Prime Minister.\n*November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n