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1652 CE

The Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine is fought east of Paris between French Parliamentarians (led by Louis, Grand Condé) against the army of King Louis XIV, commanded by the Viscount of Turenne, with neither side prevailing. The First Anglo-Dutch War begins formally as the English Commonwealth declares war against the Dutch Republic. The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion, a peasant revolt on the island of Taiwan against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa, is suppressed after four days.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • February 4 – At Edinburgh, the parliamentary commissioners of the Commonwealth of England proclaim the Tender of Union to be in force in Scotland, annexing the Scottish nation with the concession that Scotland would have 30 representatives in the parliament of the English Commonwealth.source
  • May 18 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.source

Conflict & Security

  • 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.source
  • May 19 (May 29, New Style) – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover – The opening battle is fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne; the result is inconclusive.source
  • July 2 – The Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine is fought east of Paris between French Parliamentarians (led by Louis, Grand Condé) against the army of King Louis XIV, commanded by the Viscount of Turenne, with neither side prevailing.source
  • July 4 – A mob kills 150 people, including judges, in the massacre at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.source
  • July 10 – The First Anglo-Dutch War begins formally as the English Commonwealth declares war against the Dutch Republic.source
  • August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Plymouth – A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the Dutch Republic, escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships, commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter; the Dutch escape.source
  • September 11 – The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion, a peasant revolt on the island of Taiwan against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa, is suppressed after four days.source
  • October 8 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock – In a battle fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea, about 30 km mi from the mouth of the River Thames, the Dutch are forced to withdraw.source
  • November 30 – The Netherlands takes control of the English Channel after the Battle of Dungeness ends in a Dutch victory over the English Royal Navy.source
  • December 10 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • April 6 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope in modern-day South Africa, thus founding Cape Town.source
  • July 5 – The 1652 Articles of Peace and Friendship are signed between the Province of Maryland and the Conestoga Indians, ceding most of the land around the Chesapeake Bay to the English colonists.source

Religion & Belief

  • February 12 – Oliver Cromwell, England's Lord Protector, announces that his Council of Scotland will regulate church affairs as part of the Terms of Incorporation of Scotland into England, and eliminates Presbyterianism as Scotland's state religion.source

Science & Discovery

  • March 29 (April 8 New Style) – Total solar eclipse of April 8, 1652 ("Black Monday").source

Disasters & Accidents

  • July 17 – The "Great Fire of Glasgow" destroys one-third of the Scottish city.source
  • October 2 – The Great Fire of Oulu destroys almost all of the houses of the town’s bourgeoisie, the provision warehouses and the drawbridge of Oulu Castle, in the town of Oulu, Finland.source

Culture & Society

  • June 13 – George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in England, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).source

Births

  • January 2 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1733)source
  • January 7 – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatian historian (d. 1713)source
  • January 11 – Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Germany (d. 1714)source
  • January 13 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)source
  • February 14 – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, Marshal of France (d. 1728)source
  • March 12 – Johann Heinrich Ernesti, German philosopher, theologian (d. 1729)source
  • March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born Massachusetts judge (d. 1730)source
  • May 7 – Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (d. 1723)source
  • May 27 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, wife to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1722)source
  • August 15 – John Grubb, American politician (d. 1708)source
  • August 31 – Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, only child of Duke Charles II (d. 1708)source
  • September 8 – Luisa Roldán, Spanish artist (d. 1706)source
  • November 4 – Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721), French politician (d. 1721)source
  • December 9 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)source

Deaths

  • February 28 – Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (b. 1604)source
  • April 17 – Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1608)source
  • April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian traveller (b. 1586)source
  • May 10 – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (b. 1558)source
  • June 3 – Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (b. 1628)source
  • June 18 – John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, son of John I (b. 1589)source
  • July 25 – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, Flemish marine painter (b. 1614)source
  • August 9 – Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, prince of the independent principality of Sedan (b. 1605)source
  • August 23 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)source
  • September 2 – Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker (b. 1591)source
  • October 8 – John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (b. 1602)source
  • November 7 – Henry of Nassau-Siegen, German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (b. 1611)source
  • November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)source
  • December 23 – John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)source