1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1852nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 852nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1852, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1852 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1852
MDCCCLII
Ab urbe condita2605
Armenian calendar1301
ԹՎ ՌՅԱ
Assyrian calendar6602
Baháʼí calendar8–9
Balinese saka calendar1773–1774
Bengali calendar1259
Berber calendar2802
British Regnal year15 Vict. 1 – 16 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2396
Burmese calendar1214
Byzantine calendar7360–7361
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4549 or 4342
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4550 or 4343
Coptic calendar1568–1569
Discordian calendar3018
Ethiopian calendar1844–1845
Hebrew calendar5612–5613
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1908–1909
 - Shaka Samvat1773–1774
 - Kali Yuga4952–4953
Holocene calendar11852
Igbo calendar852–853
Iranian calendar1230–1231
Islamic calendar1268–1269
Japanese calendarKaei 5
(嘉永5年)
Javanese calendar1780–1781
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4185
Minguo calendar60 before ROC
民前60年
Nanakshahi calendar384
Thai solar calendar2394–2395
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1978 or 1597 or 825
    — to —
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1979 or 1598 or 826

Events

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The world in 1852

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–March

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Elnora Monroe Babcock
 
John Harvey Kellogg
 
Friedrich Loeffler
 
Antoni Gaudi
 
Alice Liddell

April–June

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July–September

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
 
H. H. Asquith
 
Eva Kinney Griffith
 
Hermann Emil Fischer
 
Emperor Meiji
 
Ella Maria Ballou
 
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
 
Henri Becquerel

October–December

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Leonardo Torres Quevedo

Date unknown

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  • Emma Eliza Bower, American physician, club-woman, and newspaperwoman (d. 1937)
  • Liu Buchan, Chinese admiral (d. 1895)
  • Gef, supposed Indian-born Manx talking mongoose (presumed hoax of 1930s)

Deaths

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January–June

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Paavo Ruotsalainen
 
Étienne Maurice Gérard
 
Sara Coleridge

July–December

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
 
Georg August Wallin
 
Ada Lovelace

References

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