Today in History for Year 1852

Months in Year 1852: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 52 of 52

Jan 1st - 1st US public bath opens, in NYC
Jan 1st - National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
Jan 1st - Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
Jan 3rd - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
Jan 17th - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
Feb 2nd - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
Feb 2nd - Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris
Feb 11th - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
Feb 15th - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
Feb 16th - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
Feb 19th - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Feb 26th - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
Mar 1st - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Mar 7th - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
Mar 13th - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
Mar 20th - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
Mar 25th - Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
Mar 26th - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
Mar 29th - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
Apr 19th - California Historical Society forms
Apr 29th - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
Apr 30th - Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St Petersburg
May 1st - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
May 18th - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
Jul 3rd - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
Jul 9th - Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
Jul 23rd - 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
Jul 31st - Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg)
Aug 1st - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
Aug 3rd - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
Aug 20th - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
Aug 21st - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
Sep 3rd - Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
Sep 11th - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
Sep 14th - 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
Sep 24th - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power
Sep 27th - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY
Oct 11th - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
Oct 16th - Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize
Nov 2nd - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
Nov 4th - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
Nov 18th - State funeral of Duke of Wellington (London)
Nov 18th - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
Nov 20th - Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
Nov 21st - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
Nov 23rd - Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
Dec 1st - Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
Dec 2nd - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
Dec 8th - Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau
Dec 17th - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
Dec 23rd - 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
Dec 29th - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 92 of 92

Jan 1st - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
Jan 8th - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
Jan 11th - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German chancellor (1920-21)
Jan 12th - Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne)
Jan 26th - Frederick Corder, composer
Jan 26th - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa)
Jan 29th - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
Jan 29th - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
Feb 2nd - Teunis Stoel, actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam)
Feb 8th - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20]
Feb 12th - Hendrik Blink, geographer (Van de Eems tot de Schelde)
Feb 13th - Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
Feb 16th - Charles Taze Russell, religion founder (Jehovah's Witnesses)
Feb 16th - William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
Feb 20th - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)
Feb 21st - [James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
Feb 22nd - Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
Feb 24th - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
Feb 26th - John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
Feb 29th - Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936)
Mar 1st - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
Mar 5th - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
Mar 6th - Joseph Bayer, composer
Mar 15th - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
Mar 22nd - Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
Apr 1st - Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
Apr 11th - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
Apr 12th - [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician
Apr 13th - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
Apr 14th - Henrique Oswald, composer
Apr 18th - George Clausen, painter
Apr 22nd - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
Apr 23rd - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937)
May 1st - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter
May 1st - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
May 4th - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
May 11th - Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
May 22nd - Emile Sauret, composer
May 24th - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician
May 25th - William Muldoon, US wrestler and owner of NY health institute "The Olympia," (d. 1933)
May 27th - Billy Barnes, cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90)
May 29th - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
May 31st - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
Jun 20th - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]
Jun 23rd - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer
Jun 24th - Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)
Jun 25th - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
Jun 28th - Hans Huber, composer
Jul 5th - Stefano Gobatti, composer
Jul 6th - John Albert Delany, composer
Jul 10th - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister
Jul 12th - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
Jul 20th - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, lawyer/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-13) [or 1/20]=
Aug 8th - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Wandering Jew)
Aug 21st - Benedetto Junck, composer
Aug 22nd - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
Aug 23rd - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
Aug 23rd - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
Aug 24th - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
Aug 30th - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
Aug 31st - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
Sep 2nd - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
Sep 8th - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
Sep 10th - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
Sep 12th - Hubert H Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (L, 1908-16), (d. 1928)
Sep 15th - Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
Sep 15th - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
Sep 20th - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
Sep 23rd - William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school
Sep 25th - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
Sep 25th - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
Sep 28th - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall
Chemist and Nobel Laureate Henri Moissan (Sep 28th) Sep 28th - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1907)
Sep 30th - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer
Oct 2nd - William Ramsay, chemist
Oct 9th - Hermann Emil Fischer, Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1919)
Oct 15th - Wilhelm Posse, composer
Oct 23rd - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
Oct 31st - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Revolt of Mother)
Nov 3rd - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
Nov 7th - Bohdan Borkowski, composer
Nov 11th - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
Nov 21st - Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer
Nov 22nd - Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
Nov 25th - Johan N Salvator, [Johann Orth], archduke of Austria
Nov 29th - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer
Dec 4th - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
Chemist and Nobel Laureate Hermann Emil Fischer (Oct 9th) Dec 5th - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer
Dec 15th - Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), (d. 1908)
Dec 15th - Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt
Dec 18th - Gaetano Coronaro, composer
Dec 19th - A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Dec 31st - Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 48 of 48

Jan 6th - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
Jan 22nd - George Rodwell, composer, dies at 51
Jan 25th - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
Feb 2nd - Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49
Feb 17th - Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies
Feb 25th - Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies
Feb 27th - Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69
Feb 29th - John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies
Mar 4th - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43
Mar 12th - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
Mar 25th - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
Apr 2nd - Theodor Althaus, writer, dies
Apr 9th - John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
Apr 19th - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69
Apr 21st - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
Apr 24th - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
May 6th - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
May 12th - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
Jun 5th - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
Braille Inventor Louis Braille (Jan 6th) Jun 6th - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
Jun 11th - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
Jun 29th - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
Jul 5th - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
Jul 9th - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
Jul 19th - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
Jul 22nd - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
Aug 5th - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
Aug 11th - Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70
Aug 15th - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
Sep 4th - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
Sep 14th - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83
Sep 14th - James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62
Sep 14th - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
Sep 20th - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
1st Duke of Wellington & British Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley (Sep 14th) Sep 22nd - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
Sep 28th - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60
Oct 11th - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
Oct 22nd - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
Oct 24th - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70
Oct 28th - Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57
Nov 2nd - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
Nov 12th - Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22
Nov 18th - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
Nov 22nd - August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69
Nov 27th - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
Nov 28th - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
Dec 16th - Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59
Dec 16th - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer, dies at 80