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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).

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Events of 1652

January - June

July - December

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

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.

★ WRONG 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)
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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)
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