Notable Historical Events - 1852
1852 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st US public bath opens, in NYC |
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 (Fleet St London) |
Feb 2 |
Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris |
Feb 11 |
1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) |
Feb 15 |
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient |
Feb 16 |
Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established. |
Feb 19 |
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. |
Feb 21 |
George Bancroft becomes the American Geographical Society's first president |
Feb 26 |
British troopship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die, 193 survive |
Mar 1 |
Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. |
Mar 7 |
Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law |
Mar 13 |
Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly |
Mar 20 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) |
Mar 25 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich |
Mar 26 |
Decree regarding streets of Paris passed |
Mar 29 |
Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day |
Apr 19 |
California Historical Society forms |
Apr 29 |
1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published |
Apr 30 |
Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi" premieres in St Petersburg |
May 1 |
The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation. |
May 18 |
Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school |
Jul 3 |
Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California) |
Jul 5 |
Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester in which he condemns the celebration as a hypocritical sham in a land where slavery still exists |
Jul 9 |
Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada |
Jul 23 |
1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio |
Jul 31 |
Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg) |
Aug 1 |
SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist |
Aug 3 |
1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths |
Aug 13 |
Steamer "Atlantic" crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit collided with a fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard |
Aug 21 |
Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory. |
Sep 3 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden |
Sep 11 |
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
Sep 14 |
18th US Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office |
Sep 24 |
Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power |
Sep 27 |
George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" premieres in Troy, NY |
Oct 1 |
Alfred Russel Wallace returns to the U.K. after four years of travel, collecting, and research in South America |
Oct 11 |
The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. |
Oct 16 |
Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize |
Nov 2 |
Franklin Pierce elected as president of US |
Nov 4 |
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. |
Nov 18 |
State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London) |
Nov 18 |
Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II. |
Nov 20 |
Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces" premieres in London |
Nov 21 |
Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College |
Nov 23 |
Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m) |
Dec 1 |
Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands |
Dec 2 |
2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor |
Dec 8 |
Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau |
Dec 17 |
1st Hawaiian cavalry organized |
Dec 23 |
1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco |
Dec 29 |
Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants |
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