What is 1652?
{{Year nav|1652}} {{Year in various calendars|1652}} {{Year article header|1652}} == Events == * [[April 6]] – [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sailor [[Jan van Riebeeck]] establishes a resupply camp for the [[Dutch East India Company]] at the [[Cape of Good Hope]], and founded [[Cape Town]]. * [[May 18]] – [[Rhode Island]] passes the first law in [[North America]] making [[slavery]] illegal. * [[May 29]] – [[First Anglo-Dutch War]] opening battle fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral [[Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp]]'s 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]] and the other by [[Nehemiah Bourne]]. == 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]]) == Deaths == *[[February 7]] – [[Gregorio Allegri]], Italian composer (born [[1582]]) *[[June 21]] – [[Inigo Jones]], English architect (born [[1573]]) *[[July 30]] – [[Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours]], French soldier (born [[1624]]) *[[August 22]] – [[Jacob De la Gardie]], Swedish soldier and statesman (bborn [[1583]]) *[[August 23]] – [[John Byron, 1st Baron Byron]], English royalist politician (born [[1600]]) *[[October 8]] – [[John Greaves]], English mathematician and antiquarian (born [[1602]]) *[[October 20]] – [[Antonio Coello]], Spanish writer (born [[1611]]) *[[November 4]] – [[Jean-Charles de la Faille]], Belgian mathematician (born [[1597]]) *[[December 11]] – [[Denis Petau]], French theologian and historian (born [[1583]]) *[[November 21]] – [[Jan Brożek]], Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born [[1585]]) *[[December 23]] – [[John Cotton (puritan)|John Cotton]], founder of Boston,