1852

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

Years: 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 - 1852 - 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857

• January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
• January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal
• Devil's Island penal colony opens
• February 11 - First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London
• February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient
• February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established
• November - Franklin Pierce defeats Winfield Scott in the U.S. presidential election
• November 7 - President Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III of France
• November 2/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253,000 against
• December 2 Napoleon III crowned Emperor of France.

• 1852 in art
• 1852 in literature:
  • March 20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

• April 22 - Grand Duke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg
• December 15 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist
• Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter
• J. R. Petri, bacteriologist, inventor of Petri dish

• January 6 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind
• September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British commander at the Battle of Waterloo and Prime Minister.
• November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.