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List of 1852 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1852

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Date Event
January 17, 1852 The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic.
February 5, 1852 The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
February 14, 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
March 20, 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
April 29, 1852 Roget's Thesaurus, created by Peter Roget, was released to the public.
May 29, 1852 Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
July 3, 1852 Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York.
August 3, 1852 Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
August 20, 1852 Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
August 21, 1852 Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
September 11, 1852 Outbreak of Revolution of September 11 resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
September 19, 1852 Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
September 24, 1852 The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
October 11, 1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
November 4, 1852 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
November 26, 1852 An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.
December 2, 1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.