Major Events
- Jan 1 1st US public bath opens in New York City
- Jan 1 National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
- Jan 1 Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
- Jan 3 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
- Jan 17 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
- Feb 2 1st British public men's toilet opens in Fleet St, London
- Feb 2 Alexandre Dumas Jr's play, an adaptation of his novel "La Dame aux Camélias" premieres in Paris
- Feb 5 The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg first opens to the public with Catherine the Great's collection of 4,000 paintings forming its core collection
- Feb 11 First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London)
- Feb 15 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
- More 1852 Events
Did You Know?
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Frank Winfield Woolworth
Calamity Jane
Hipólito Yrigoyen
H. H. Asquith
Emil FischerMore People Born in 1852
Louis Braille
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Henry Clay
Arthur Wellesley
Daniel Webster
Ada LovelaceMore 1852 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1852
- Dec 30 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
Edward Smith-Stanley
Millard Fillmore