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
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) 4348 or 4288     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4349 or 4289
Coptic calendar	1368–1369
Discordian calendar	2818
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
Igbo calendar	652–653
Iranian calendar	1030–1031
Islamic calendar	1062–1063
Japanese calendar	Keian 5 / Jōō 1 (承応元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3985
Minguo calendar	260 before ROC 民前260年
Thai solar calendar	2194–2195

1652 (MDCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Julian calendar, the 1652nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 652nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1650s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1652 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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, thus founding 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 – George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in England, 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.
• September 7–11 – Guo Huaiyi Rebellion: Peasant revolt against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa; suppressed.
• 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

• January 2 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1733)
• January 2 – Michel Chamillart, French wikt (d. 1721)
• January 7 – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatian historian (d. 1713)
• January 8 – Wilhelm Homberg, Dutch alchemist (d. 1715)
• January 11 – Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1714)
• January 16 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1699)
• January 17 – Claude-Guy Hallé, French painter (d. 1736)
• February 6 – Francesco Pignatelli, Catholic cardinal (d. 1734)
• February 13 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter (d. 1726)
• February 13 – August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (d. 1689)
• February 14 – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, Marshal of France (d. 1728)
• March 1 – Louis de Sabran, British theologian (d. 1732)
• March 3 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685)
• March 10 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (d. 1732)
• March 12 – Johann Heinrich Ernesti, Philosopher and theologian (d. 1729)
• March 14 – Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, German princess (d. 1730)
• March 20 – Leon Bazyli Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian politician (d. 1686)
• March 21 – Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, Anglo-Irish nobleman (d. 1740)
• March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)
• April 7 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
• April 9 – Jean Le Fèvre (astronomer), Astronomer (d. 1706)
• April 9 – Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1704)
• April 13 – Thomas Ward (author), English writer (d. 1708)
• April 21 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
• April 25 – Boris Sheremetev, Russian noble (d. 1719)
• April 25 – Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian artist (d. 1737)
• April 28 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, Regent and composer (d. 1712)
• May 1 – John King (Rector of Chelsea), English churchman (d. 1732)
• May 2 – Abraham Hinckelmann (d. 1695)
• May 7 – Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (d. 1723)
• May 11 – Johann Philipp d'Arco (d. 1704)
• May 14 – Juliana of Hesse-Eschwege, German noblewoman (d. 1693)
• May 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German opera composer (d. 1732)
• May 20 – Ichijō Kaneteru, Court noble (d. 1705)
• May 27 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, wife to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1722)
• June 1 – Juan Ferreras (d. 1735)
• June 23 – Jan Brokoff, German sculptor (d. 1718)
• August 3 – Samuel Western, English politician (d. 1699)
• August 15 – John Grubb, American politician (d. 1708)
• August 15 – John Wise (clergyman), American Christian clergy (d. 1725)
• August 26 – Tsarevna Marfa Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1707)
• August 31 – Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, only child of Duke Charles II (d. 1708)
• September 4 – Jean Orry, French economist (d. 1719)
• September 4 – Tokugawa Tsunanari, Daimyo (d. 1699)
• September 8 – Luisa Roldán, Spanish artist (d. 1706)
• September 10 – Jan Sladký Kozina (d. 1695)
• September 12 – Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (d. 1697)
• October 11 – Nathaniel Higginson (d. 1708)
• October 16 – Karl, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 1718)
• October 16 – Jan Mortel, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1719)
• October 29 – Jan Wyck, military painter (d. 1702)
• November 1 – William Lowndes, English politician (d. 1724)
• November 3 – Louis, Duke of Rohan, French noble (d. 1727)
• November 4 – Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721), French politician (d. 1721)
• November 9 – Marie Anne d'Orléans (d. 1656)
• December 9 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
• November 10 – Johann Ernst Glück (d. 1705)
• December 2 – Karolina of Legnica-Brieg, Silesian noblewoman (d. 1707)
• December 9 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
• December 9 – Robert Rochfort, Irish politician (d. 1727)
• December 20 – Samuel Bradford, English churchman and whig (d. 1731)
• December 25 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
• December 27 – Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German nobleman (d. 1692)

Deaths

• February 17 – Gregorio Allegri, Roman composer (b. 1582)
• February 28 – Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (b. 1604)
• April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian traveller (b. 1586)
• 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 della Faille, Belgian mathematician (b. 1597)
• December 11 – Denis Pétau, 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)

Date unknown

• Johannes Gysius – Dutch historian (b. circa 1583)
• Prince Luarsab of Kartli – heir apparent to the throne of Kingdom of Kartli