1652
Year 1652 (MDCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
January - June
 January 8 - Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a vice-commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founds Cape Town.
May 18 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
May 29 - First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.
July - December
August 26 - First Anglo-Dutch War - Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
October 8 - First Anglo-Dutch War - Battle of the Kentish Knock: The battle is fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea, about 30 km from the mouth of the River Thames.
Ongoing events
Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)
Births
March 3 - Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685)
March 28 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)
April 7 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
April 21 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
December 9 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
December 25 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
See also .
Deaths
February 7 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
June 21 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
July 30 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
August 22 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
August 23 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
October 8 - John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (b. 1602)
October 20 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
November 4 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (b. 1597)
December 11 - Denis Petau, French theologian and historian (b. 1583)
November 21 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
December 23 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
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