1652 - All About All

1652

Events

• April 6 - 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 and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

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 25 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)

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 poltician (b. 1600)
• October 8 - John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (b. 1602)
• October 20 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer
• 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)