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

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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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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).

Events of 1652

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 founds 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.

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.
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.

See also Category:1652 births.

February 7 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
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 de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (b. 1597)
December 11 – Denis Petau, 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)

See also Category:1652 deaths.

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