It was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar .
Events
The world in 1852 January–March April–June July–September October–December Date unknown Births
January–June January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and writer (d. 1931 ) January 11 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926 ) February 16 – Charles Taze Russell (Pastor Russell), prominent Protestant reformer and evangelist (d. 1916 ) March 1 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923 ) April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (d. 1911 ) April 13 – F.W. Woolworth, American merchant and businessman (d. 1919 ) April 22 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912 ) May 1 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish histologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1934 ) May 4 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (d. 1934 ) May 31 – Julius Richard Petri, German scientist (d. 1921 ) June 25 – Antoni Gaudi, Spanish modernist architect (d. 1926 ) July–December July 12 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933 ) August 23 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (d. 1913 ) August 30 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911 ) September 10 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937 ) September 12 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928 ) September 15 – Edward Bouchet , American physicist (d. 1918 ) September 28 John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British general, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I (d. 1925 ) Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 ) September 30 – Charles Villiers Stanford , Irish composer, resident in England (d. 1924 ) October 2 – William Ramsay , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916 ) October 9 – Hermann Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 ) November 1 – Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (d. 1920 ) November 3 – Prince Mutsuhito of Japan, the future Emperor Meiji (d. 1912 ) November 11 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925 ) November 22 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924 ) November 26 – Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, the 16th and 22nd Prime Minister of Japan , an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy December 15 – Henri Becquerel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908 ) December 19 – Albert Abraham Michelson , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 ) December 21 – George Callaghan, British admiral (d. 1920 ) Deaths
January–June July–December July 20 – José Antonio Estudillo, early California settler (b. 1805 ) July 22 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774 ) September 4 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796 ) September 14 September 20 – Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (b. 1775 ) October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (b. 1805 ) October 24 – Daniel Webster , American statesman (b. 1782 ) October 25 – John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793 ) October 26 – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher (b. 1801 ) November 2 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian military hero (b. 1782 ) November 27 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (b. 1815 ) November 29 – Nicolae Bălcescu, Wallachian revolutionary (b. 1819 ) November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth, English-born actor (b. 1796 ) December 16 – Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Voortrekker leader (b. 1792 ) References
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