Major Events
- Jan 24 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
- Mar 18 Renown French preacher Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ordained as a priest, having been named Archdeacon of Sarrebourg
- Apr 6 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
- May 4 Battle of Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
- May 10 John Johnson, a free African-Virginian, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Virginia by his father
- May 13 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
- May 18 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
- May 19 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
- May 29 Battle of Goodwin Sands, off Folkestone, Kent: English 'General at Sea' Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp
- Jun 10 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
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Born in 1652
- Jan 7 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer and historian, born in Senj, Hapsburg Empire (d. 1713)
- Mar 3 Thomas Otway, English playwright and poet (Venice Preserv'd), born in Trotton, Sussex, England (d. 1685)
- Mar 28 Samuel Sewall, English-American judge and businessman, born in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England (d. 1730)
- Apr 7 Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40) who despite ill health and total blindness (1732) unsuccessfully stemmed decline of papal influence, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1740)
- Apr 21 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Rolle's theorem), born in Ambert, Basse-Auvergne (d. 1719)
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Fun Fact About 1652
New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
Who Died in 1652
- Jan 30 Georges de la Tour, French painter of candlelit scenes, dies during an epidemic at 58
- Feb 17 Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer and composer (Miserere), dies at about 67
- Mar 21 Vredius [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian and mayor of Brugge, dies at 55
- Apr 15 Patriarch Joseph of Moscow, sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
- Apr 21 Pietro Della Valle, Italian composer, dies at 66
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Famous Weddings in 1652
- May 2 Daughter of the Prince of Orange, Albertine Agnes marries William Frederick Prince of Nassau-Dietz
Rembrandt van Rijn
Louis XIV
Oliver Cromwell