What Happened In 1652 - Historical Events 1652

Historical Events for the Year 1652

6th April » At the Cape of Good Hope, Netherlands called Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
18th May » Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
20th June » Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
7th September » Around 15,000 Han Chinese Han farmers and militia Guo Huaiyi Rebellion rebel against Dutch Formosa Dutch rule on Taiwan.

3rd March » Thomas Otway, English playwright (d. 1685)
28th March » Samuel Sewall, American judge (d. 1730)
7th April » Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
21st April » Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
28th April » Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1712)
14th May » Johann Philipp Förtsch, German composer (d. 1732)
27th May » Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (d. 1722)
31st August » Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1708)
9th December » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
25th December » Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician, anatomist, and scholar (d. 1713)

17th February » Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
15th April » Patriarch Joseph, Russian patriarch
30th July » Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (b. 1624)
22nd August » Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (b. 1583)
23rd August » John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600)
8th October » John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1602)
20th October » Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
21st November » Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
23rd December » John Cotton (minister) called John Cotton, English-American minister and theologian (b. 1585)