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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 - June

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 founded Cape Town.
May 18 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
May 29 - First Anglo-Dutch War opening battle fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

July - December

August 26 - Battle of Plymouth (First Anglo-Dutch War): A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacked an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.

October 8 - Battle of the Kentish Knock (First Anglo-Dutch War): 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.

Ongoing events

Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

Births

March 3 - Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685)

March 28 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)

April 7 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)

April 21 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)

December 9 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)

December 25 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713) ť See also .

Deaths

February 7 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (born 1582)

June 21 - Inigo Jones, English architect (born 1573)

July 30 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (born 1624)

August 22 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (bborn 1583)

August 23 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (born 1600)

October 8 - John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (born 1602)

October 20 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (born 1611)

November 4 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (born 1597)

December 11 - Denis Petau, French theologian and historian (born 1583)

November 21 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1585)

December 23 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1585) ť See also .

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