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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.

Famous Birthdays in 1652

• 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)

Famous Deaths in History for 1652

• 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)

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